A dry spell means domestic cattle supply is down. Meanwhile, demand for beef has seen a slight uptick this year.

Brad Kooima, Kooima Kooima Varilek says live and feeder cattle futures are seeing some strength from better cash news with the South trading fully a $1 higher at mostly $187. The North was mostly ...

CME December live cattle futures rose 0.70 cent to 184.400 cents per pound. Most-active January feeder cattle futures rose 1.325 cents to 243.575 cents per pound. "Live cattle futures are oversold and ...

Live cattle futures fell 80 cents to $2.125 on Friday, as the Boxed Beef values continue to slip lower. December was down $2.22 on the week. Cash trade this week settled in with Northern sales of ...

Precious metals ignored the debt and currency markets, posting across-the-board gains. Gold reached a new record high, and ...

Live cattle futures settled the Tuesday session with contracts mixed, as December was down 30 cent and the rest were 2 to 45 cents higher. Cash trade has yet to get kicked off this week ...

Feeder cattle are also known as store cattle, and they are mature enough for backgrounding or to be fattened in preparation for slaughter. Are futures riskier than options? Understand the risks of ...

Hog prices made a dramatic U-turn to the down side on Thursday, just as live cattle futures blasted through the ceiling developed at the beginning of August. The main reason hogs fell was ...

CHICAGO (AP) _ Grain futures were mostly lower Wednesday on the Chicago Board ... Beef was lower and pork was lower on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Dec. live cattle fell by 0.7 cent at $1.84 a ...

CME December hog futures finished up 1.35 cents at 81.775 cents per pound. Meanwhile, live cattle traded flat after falling to six-week lows on Friday and feeder cattle firmed as boxed beef prices ...

CHICAGO, Oct 22 (Reuters) - Chicago Mercantile Exchange cattle futures rose on Tuesday on signs of increased demand from U.S. consumers and exporters, analysts said. Lean hog futures also rose as ...

The return of drought in U.S. cattle-producing areas is delaying ranchers' plans to expand production after the nation's herd shrank to its smallest level in seven decades, farmers and analysts said.