“That was the golden-age of the cattle industry,” he remembers. “A cattleman could buy cattle cheap, put them out on grass relatively cheap and hedge them against the October Feeder futures contract.
Cattle in the north traded at $165 live and $265 dressed, steady with last week. Cattle in the South also traded steady at $165 per cwt. Feedyards are fully current in their marketings and showlists ...
Chicago Mercantile Exchange most active February live cattle closed at 197.400 cents per pound, unchanged from yesterday. The second-most active April futures closed at 198.150, down 0.050 cents from ...
Feedlots are expected to bid up the price of feeder cattle so that margins in the deferred positions cover variable costs Glacier FarmMedia – For the week ending Jan. 11, western Canadian feeder ...
For the week ending January 11, Western Canadian feeder cattle prices were up $15-$20/cwt compared to the week ending December 21, 2024. In eastern Saskatchewan and Manitoba, quality packages of ...
Some yards currently get three or four buyers bidding on a pen, but there are others that get only one bid, said Jim Gill, market director of the Texas Cattle Feeders Association. “We would like to ...
NWS can infest livestock, pets, wildlife, occasionally birds, and in rare cases, people. A letter sent Friday by outgoing USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack to Mexico’s Secretary of Agriculture Julio ...
For the week ending Jan. 11, western Canadian feeder cattle prices were up $15-$20 per hundredweight compared to the week ending Dec. 21. Threatened Trump tariffs have slipped canola prices into a ...