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Low oil prices will definitely impact beef market

By Jerry Klassen January 8, 2015

Fed cattle prices reached record highs in mid-December with Alberta packers purchasing steers in the range of $179 to $182, up nearly $10 from a month earlier. Market-ready supplies of fed cattle remain relatively tight while consumer demand has increased during the holiday season. Retailers have been selling beef in smaller packages in an effort […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Livestock, Markets

Klassen: Feeder cattle market ends on mixed tone

By Jerry Klassen, GFM Network News December 29, 2014

Western Canadian feeder cattle markets have ended the year on a mixed tone with most auction barns closed for the holiday season. Alberta packers were buying limited volumes of fed steers at $178 per hundredweight (cwt), down from highs of $183 earlier in December. The uncertainty over feedlot margins for the first and second quarters […] Read more

Cattleman’s Corner, Markets

Cattle fundamentals remain healthy

By Jerry Klassen December 16, 2014

Fed cattle prices in Alberta continue to hover between $168 to $172 due to tighter market-ready supplies, steady consumer demand and a weaker Canadian dollar. Cattle on feed numbers continue to come in below year-ago levels in both Canada and the U.S. Cheaper feed grain prices have allowed feedlots to hold cattle and be patient […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Livestock, Markets, Reuters

Record-heavy U.S. cattle won’t ground sky-high beef prices

By GFM Network News November 26, 2014

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. cattle are hitting record weights and the heavier trend should continue next year, but beef production will still fall short of demand and keep prices high, industry experts said. Breeding bigger cattle is the only way to raise domestic beef supplies while ranchers struggle to rebuild the national herd, which is […] Read more

Livestock, Markets

Pork, poultry to dictate future cattle prices, analyst says

By GFM Network News October 15, 2014

CNS Canada –– Increased competition from pork and poultry may be the factors that ultimately stop skyrocketing beef prices across North America, according to one cattle market analyst. “We’ve had a phenomenal year of demand for beef and prices have been record-high right through the whole pipeline so the question we’re all asking now is […] Read more

Cattleman’s Corner

Consumers balk at higher beef prices

By Jerry Klassen July 3, 2014

Retail beef prices have surged higher since January, resulting in softer beef consumption. Average American at-home and away-from-home food expenditures were running four and three per cent, respectively, above year-ago levels earlier in 2014. But since March, at-home food spending is now below year-ago levels by two per cent while away-from-home food spending is down 8.4 […] Read more

Cattleman’s Corner

The era of collaborative competitors

By Sean McGrath June 6, 2014

The only new money that enters the beef production chain comes from the consumer. There are a couple of ways this can happen. The first, and I would propose the most positive way, is through product purchase. The second, and not quite as positive, is through tax dollars. Beef demand is based on price versus […] Read more

GFM Network News

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Tag Archives beef prices

Low oil prices will definitely impact beef market

Klassen: Feeder cattle market ends on mixed tone

Cattle fundamentals remain healthy

Record-heavy U.S. cattle won’t ground sky-high beef prices

Pork, poultry to dictate future cattle prices, analyst says

Consumers balk at higher beef prices

The era of collaborative competitors

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