Canfax report

This cattle market information is selected from the weekly report from Canfax, a division of the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association. More market information, analysis and statistics are available by becoming a Canfax subscriber by calling 403-275-5110 or at www.canfax.ca. Fed market firm Alberta direct cattle sales saw moderate volume trade last week, with prices steady to […] Read more

WP livestock report

Hogs The U.S. national live price average for barrows and gilts May 12 was $59.05, up from $54.70 May 5. U.S. hogs averaged $74.36 on a carcass basis May 12, up from $70.89 May 5. The U.S. pork cutout was $83.41 per hundredweight May 12, up from $81.87 May 5. The estimated U.S. weekly slaughter […] Read more


Wheat is loaded into the hold of a bulk carrier ship.

Russian wheat exports set torrid pace this year

Sergiy Kyslytsya, Ukraine's permanent representative to the United Nations, recently told a meeting of the UN Security Council that Russia is blackmailing the world by disrupting the Black Sea Grain Initiative and pretending to suffer from its existence, while in fact its grain exports are soaring.








Ground level shot of a lush green winter wheat crop recently emerged.

Wheat market’s reaction to U.S. rain baffles grain sector

Industry officials are flummoxed by recent wheat market behaviour. Hard Red Winter Wheat (HRWW) July futures tumbled 16 percent between April 18 and May 2. The freefall was due in part to a two-day rain during the last week of April that delivered up to 100 millimetres of moisture to parts of the southern U.S. […] Read more