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Tyson to stop buying slaughter-ready Canadian cattle

2013-10-25 05:30:25| Food - Topix.net

Agribusiness giant Tyson Foods Inc. says it will stop buying slaughter-ready Canadian cattle because of the high cost of adhering to U.S. meat labelling rules.

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If Cattle Follow Feed and Feed Follows Water, Is Cattle Feeding Moving North?

2013-10-24 22:49:00| Beef

The removal of excess feeding capacity currently underway in the U.S. is fairly one-sided geographically. Thus, the feeding capacity in the Corn Belt may gain sector share by merely staying the same, while feeding in the Southern Plains contracts. My View From The Country read more

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Fed Cattle And Beef Price Moves Higher

2013-10-19 16:33:00| Beef

Cash fed cattle finally broke past $130/cwt. and beef prices continue to strengthen, but the market remains unconvinced that this is the bottom rung of a new seasonal plateau. Market chatter suggests Thursday's cash trade at $130 is probably the most packers will pay for quite a while," says John Otte, Penton market analyst. "Everybody in the industry was waiting for the price to hit $130. Once it did, everybody started to liquidate long positions. Packers will come in and say that cattle are too high compared to beef, so we're probably in for a two-to-three-week correction in the cash and the futures. read more

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Cattle Market Weekly Audio Report for Saturday, Oct. 19, 2013

2013-10-19 05:51:00| Beef

Calf and feeder prices continued to climb higher last week with few signs of slowing at auction. According to USDA-AMS analysts, feeder and and stocker cattle markets coninued to show strength through October, which is annually the month with the most pressure from spring born calf sales. Audio File:  FINAL 10-19-13.mp3 read more

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Tens of thousands of cattle feared dead after South Dakota storm

2013-10-14 22:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: The storm was just so sudden, South Dakota cattle rancher Kathy Jobgen remembers. A freezing rain, followed by an avalanche of four feet of snow and winds of 70 miles an hour, hit thousands of cattle still grazing on "summer pastures" at a time when the animals had not yet grown their protective winter coats and were ill prepared for the harsh conditions. Swirling snow lodged in some of the animals' lungs, suffocating them. Hypothermia killed more. And others were caught in gullies, or plunged...

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