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(Gloria Solano-Aguilar photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

U.S. livestock: Profit-taking, cash prices drop CME hogs

By GFM Network News October 23, 2017

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hogs closed lower on Monday, pressured by profit-taking following the morning’s cash price drop, traders said. December hogs finished 1.325 cents/lb. lower at 63.525 cents, and February ended 0.875 cent lower at 68.225 cents (all figures US$). Some investors sold futures after analysts predicted a 480,000-plus head […] Read more

Finishers, Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. September cattle placements surge

By GFM Network News October 21, 2017

Chicago | Reuters — Ranchers in September drove 13.5 per cent more cattle into U.S. feedlots than the same month a year earlier, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported on Friday. The result topped analysts’ average forecasts and hit its highest level for the month in six years. “The good news for the consumer is […] Read more

Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle rise before USDA report

By GFM Network News October 20, 2017

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle closed higher on Friday, helped by short-covering and positioning before the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s monthly Cattle on Feed report on Friday at 2 p.m. CT, said traders. They said that with December futures slated to be the new lead month following October’s expiration, investors periodically […] Read more

Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: CME hogs hit two-month high

By GFM Network News October 19, 2017

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hog futures rose on Thursday, hitting their highest level in two months led by steadily climbing prices for market-ready, or cash, hogs as packers competed for supplies, said traders. December hogs finished 0.5 cent/lb. higher at 64.250 cents, and February ended 0.475 cent higher at 68.475 cent […] Read more

Corn, Crops, Markets, Soybeans

CBOT weekly outlook: Corn, soy steady as attention turns to South America

By GFM Network News October 18, 2017

CNS Canada — Soybean and corn futures at the Chicago Board of Trade are both keeping rangebound as attention shifts from last week’s U.S. Department of Agriculture supply/demand report to South American growing conditions. During the week ended Wednesday the December corn contract rose 2.5 cents, to $3.485 per bushel (all figures US$). On the […] Read more

(Regis Lefebure photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: Hog futures tumble in reversal on technical selloff

By Michael Hirtzer, GFM Network News October 17, 2017

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hog futures fell about two per cent in a technical selloff on Tuesday, easing from an earlier two-month high in a reversal that could portend further declines, traders and analysts said. Live cattle and feeder cattle futures each dropped to the lowest levels in about two weeks […] Read more

Livestock, Markets, Reuters

USDA plan to axe livestock pricing rule divides producers

By GFM Network News October 17, 2017

Chicago | Reuters — The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in a filing on Tuesday said it will dismantle Obama-era rules for buying and selling livestock, a move that has divided the U.S. meat industry. U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue withdrew an interim final rule and a proposed regulation of the Farmer Fair Practices Rules […] Read more

Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: Hogs at two-month high on packer demand

By Michael Hirtzer, GFM Network News October 16, 2017

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. lean hog futures rose to a two-month high on Monday as cash prices extended their climb on strong demand from the expanded pork processing sector, traders and analysts said. Two new hog slaughterhouses that opened about a month ago in Iowa and Michigan have boosted hog demand while wholesale pork […] Read more

Ripe soybeans near Morden, Man. on Sept. 14, 2017. (Allan Dawson photo)

Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Soybeans drop below $10 on profit-taking

By GFM Network News October 16, 2017

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Board of Trade soybean futures weakened on Monday, dipping below the US$10-per-bushel threshold the market hit for the first time in 2-1/2 months last week. “Soybeans are lower, giving back some of last week’s gains on profit taking,” Farm Futures analyst Bryce Knorr said in a note to clients. Soybean […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Front-month soy tops US$10

By GFM Network News October 13, 2017

New York | Reuters — U.S. spot soybean futures closed above US$10 a bushel on Friday, the highest in 2-1/2 months, on follow-through buying a day after the U.S. Department of Agriculture lowered its estimate of the U.S. average soy yield, analysts said. Corn futures rose on a bigger-than-expected weekly export sales tally and wheat […] Read more

GFM Network News

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U.S. livestock: Profit-taking, cash prices drop CME hogs

U.S. September cattle placements surge

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle rise before USDA report

U.S. livestock: CME hogs hit two-month high

CBOT weekly outlook: Corn, soy steady as attention turns to South America

U.S. livestock: Hog futures tumble in reversal on technical selloff

USDA plan to axe livestock pricing rule divides producers

U.S. livestock: Hogs at two-month high on packer demand

U.S. grains: Soybeans drop below $10 on profit-taking

U.S. grains: Front-month soy tops US$10

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