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U.S. livestock: Cattle futures slip on demand concerns as beef prices turn lower

Sep. 2, 2025 at 5:00 pm CDT

Chicago Mercantile Exchange cattle futures dipped on Tuesday as gains fueled by tight cattle supplies and strong demand faded amid concerns that high beef prices and cooling weather could soon affect retail meat sales, analysts said.

Chicago, Illinois, USA - March 28, 2022: Chicago Board of Trade office in Chicago. The Chicago Board of Trade is one of the world's oldest futures and options exchanges.

U.S. grains: Soy drops on demand worries, corn firm as traders question lofty yield projections

Sep. 2, 2025 at 4:22 pm CDT

By Karl Plume Reuters

Australian crops to surpass 10-year averages

Sep. 2, 2025 at 3:01 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Pulse Weekly: Canadian pulse production to rise in 2025-26

Sep. 2, 2025 at 2:56 pm CDT

By Adam Peleshaty

Alberta Crop Report: Clear weather aids harvest

Sep. 2, 2025 at 2:53 pm CDT

By Adam Peleshaty

Beef cattle in the ring in front of cattle buyers at Grunthal Livestock Auction.

Klassen: Feeder market continues to climb

Sep. 2, 2025 at 10:25 am CDT

For the week ending August 30, Western Canadian feeder cattle markets traded $4-$8/cwt higher on average. Quality yearling and calf packages were up as much as $15/cwt in some cases.

By Jerry Klassen

Grain elevators and train on the prairie.

Louis Dreyfus buys oilseed assets from Bunge in Poland and Hungary

Sep. 2, 2025 at 10:16 am CDT

Louis Dreyfus Company has acquired grains and oilseeds processing, storage and trading activities in Hungary and Poland from rival agricultural commodity merchant Bunge Global, fulfilling conditions Bunge needed to meet to get approval of its merger with Viterra.

By Reuters

A cloned newborn horse stands next to its surrogate mother in an enclosure at a horse birthing hospital, in San Antonio de Areco, near Buenos Aires, Argentina July 29, 2025.

World’s first gene-edited horses are shaking up the genteel sport of polo

Sep. 2, 2025 at 10:04 am CDT

Kheiron Biotech, an Argentine company, has bred gene-edited polo ponies and says gene-editing has the potential to revolutionize horse breeding.

By Leila Miller Reuters

Feed Grains Weekly: Price likely to keep stepping back

Aug. 29, 2025 at 3:34 pm CDT

As the harvest in southern Alberta presses on, a broker said that is one of the factors pulling feed prices lower in the region. Darcy Haley, vice-president of Ag Value Brokers in Lethbridge, added that lower cattle numbers in feedlots, plentiful amounts of grass for cattle to graze and a lacklustre export market also weighed on feed prices.

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm