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2. Feeder cattle - Wikipedia

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   Feeder cattle futures contracts, traded on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), can be used to hedge and to speculate on the price of feeder cattle. Cattle producers can hedge future buying and selling prices for feeder cattle through trading feeder cattle futures, and such trading is a common part of a producer's risk management program. [11]

3. Live cattle - Wikipedia

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   Live cattle is a type of futures contract that can be used to hedge and to speculate on fed cattle prices. Cattle producers, feedlot operators, and merchant exporters can hedge future selling prices for cattle through trading live cattle futures, and such trading is a common part of a producer's price risk management program. [1]

4. Cow–calf operation - Wikipedia

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   Sale prices for calves sold from a cow–calf operation are subject to fluctuation as part of the cattle cycle of financial markets. [12] The relatively long period it takes a cow–calf operator to build up a beef herd and raise new calves to the desired weight tends to extend the length of such a cycle.

5. Here's the Beef: U.S. Cattle Prices Are Rising With the Economy

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   Last year, according to Bill Gray, U.S. cattle inventory decreased by 820,000 head, including dairy cattle. A long-term drought in U.S. cattle country also disrupted the cycle of raising beef ...

6. Lean Hog - Wikipedia

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   Lean Hog is a type of hog futures contract that can be used to hedge and to speculate on pork prices in the US. Lean Hog futures and options are traded on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), which introduced Lean Hog futures contracts in 1966. [ 1 ]

7. Harris Ranch - Wikipedia

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   Harris Ranch, or the Harris Cattle Ranch, feedlot is California's largest beef producer, producing 150 million pounds (68 kt) of beef per year in 2010. [1] It is located alongside Interstate 5 at its intersection with State Route 198 east of Coalinga , in the San Joaquin Valley of central California .

8. Dairy cattle must be tested for bird flu before moving ... - AOL

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   Dairy cattle moving between states must be tested for the bird flu virus, U.S. agriculture officials said Wednesday as they try to track and control the growing outbreak. The federal order was ...

9. Intensive animal farming - Wikipedia

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   Intensive animal farming, industrial livestock production, and macro-farms, [1] also known as factory farming, [2] is a type of intensive agriculture, specifically an approach to animal husbandry designed to maximize production while minimizing costs. [3]