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A Holstein heifer on pasture in Quebec. (Lurin/iStock/Getty Images)

Dairy Cattle, Livestock, Machinery, Reuters

Trudeau takes Quebec dairy gamble to preserve big trade deal

By GFM Network News October 2, 2018

Ottawa/Montreal | Reuters — With his political future at stake, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will mount a charm offensive to placate dairy farmers who say he sold them out in order to win approval of a continental trade deal. Compounding Trudeau’s challenges in the influential province of Quebec, where many dairy farmers are based, […] Read more

Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: CME cattle futures extend rally

By Reuters, GFM Network News October 2, 2018

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures rose for the third day in a row on Tuesday, with the market still underpinned by the trade deal among the U.S., Canada and Mexico, traders said. But technical buying pulled prices from their highs and the market failed to take out the 5-1/2-month high […] Read more

CME April 2019 live cattle futures, with 20-day moving average in brown. (Barchart)

Finishers, Livestock, Markets

Klassen: Improving margins underpin feeder market

By Jerry Klassen, GFM Network News October 2, 2018

Compared to last week, western Canadian yearlings advanced $2-$5 while calves were unchanged to $3 higher. April live cattle futures are in a bull market; I’ve had many calls from producers and all I tell them is that April live cattle futures are in a bull market. Just as important, a market will not culminate […] Read more

Cattleman’s Corner, Livestock

Feeding salt to beef cattle is easy

From either blocks or in loose form, a beef animal now needs about 50 grams per day 

By Peter Vitti October 1, 2018

What could be easier than throwing a salt block off the back of a truck for each group of grazing cattle in a cow herd? Or filling a part of a mineral compartment with loose salt? Then coming back in a week or so and putting out salt in one of these ways, again? It […] Read more

CME December 2018 live cattle, with 20-day moving average in orange. (Barchart)

Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: CME cattle futures jump on trilateral trade pact

By GFM Network News October 1, 2018

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures rose to their highest prices since April on Monday after the U.S., Canada and Mexico said they struck a deal on a trilateral trade pact. News of the agreement, reached over the weekend, eased concerns that the United States would exit the North American Free […] Read more

Dairy Cattle, Livestock, Machinery, Reuters

Canada, U.S. deal saves NAFTA as trilateral pact

By GFM Network News October 1, 2018

Ottawa/Washington | Reuters — The U.S. and Canada forged a last-gasp deal on Sunday to salvage NAFTA as a trilateral pact with Mexico, rescuing a three-country, US$1.2 trillion open-trade zone that had been about to collapse after nearly a quarter century. In a big victory for his agenda to shake up an era of global […] Read more

Canada/U.S. border signage in downtown Detroit. (RiverNorthPhotography/Getty Images)

Dairy Cattle, Livestock, Machinery, Reuters

Canada, U.S. reach deal to update NAFTA, sources say

By GFM Network News September 30, 2018

Ottawa/Washington | Reuters — The U.S. and Canada reached a deal to update NAFTA and keep it a trilateral pact with Mexico, beating a midnight deadline with agreements to boost U.S. access to Canada’s dairy market and protect Canada from possible U.S. autos tariffs, two Canadian sources with direct knowledge of the talks said on […] Read more

Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: CME lean hogs, cattle rise on month-end buying

By GFM Network News September 28, 2018

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hog futures rose on Friday, with the most-active December contract jumping more than four per cent on short-covering at the end of the month and quarter, traders said. CME October hogs settled up 0.875 cent at 62.175 cents/lb. and December rose 2.45 cents at 57.925 (all figures […] Read more

Livestock

Five tips for easier cattle processing

September 28, 2018

As part of his appearance at the Western Canada Feedlot Management School, Curt Pate gave a processing demonstration at Ceylon Gap Feeders in Ceylon, Sask. Here are some of his tips for effectively creating flow through a processing system.

The feeder cattle market remains firm heading into fall, says Jerry Klassen.

Cattleman’s Corner, Feed markets, Finishers

Cattle producers eyeing feed grain prices

Market Update: Feeding expected to get more expensive — something has to give

By Jerry Klassen September 27, 2018

Feedlot operators have had a very strenuous spring and summer. Margins have been hovering in negative territory while feed barley prices have been percolating higher. Feeder cattle prices are actually higher than year-ago levels despite the strong feed grain prices and a year-over-year increase in the U.S. calf crop. The Canadian dollar has been trading […] Read more

GFM Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle fall sharply as Trump says he’s working to lower beef costs

Alberta Crop Report: Harvest reaches completion

U.S. grains: Corn, soybeans rise on yield uncertainty, firming cash markets

Livestock

Trudeau takes Quebec dairy gamble to preserve big trade deal

U.S. livestock: CME cattle futures extend rally

Klassen: Improving margins underpin feeder market

Feeding salt to beef cattle is easy

U.S. livestock: CME cattle futures jump on trilateral trade pact

Canada, U.S. deal saves NAFTA as trilateral pact

Canada, U.S. reach deal to update NAFTA, sources say

U.S. livestock: CME lean hogs, cattle rise on month-end buying

Five tips for easier cattle processing

Cattle producers eyeing feed grain prices

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