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  2. 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]

  3. Commodity status of animals - Wikipedia

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    Isidore of Seville (560–636) distinguished between "cattle", a term for animals that had been domesticated, and "beasts" or wild animals, as did Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274). [17] The English jurist William Blackstone (1723–1780) wrote of domesticated animals, in Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765–1769):

  4. 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 ...

  5. 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 ]

  6. 2023 World Livestock Auctioneer champion Jacob Massey ... - AOL

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    The Exchange is gearing up for an extraordinary event as it hosts the 2023 World Livestock Auctioneer Champion ... 2023 World Livestock Auctioneer champion Jacob Massey takes center stage in Dickinson

  7. Commodity price index - Wikipedia

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    The value of these indexes fluctuates based on their underlying commodities, and this value can be traded on an exchange in much the same way as stock index futures. Investors can choose to obtain a passive exposure to these commodity price indices through a total return swap or a commodity index fund .

  8. Key members of OPEC+ alliance are putting off production ...

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    One result of those slack prices is that U.S. average pump prices for gasoline fell to $3.03 a gallon this week, the lowest since May, 2021 and well down from their record peak of $5.02 from June ...

  9. Intensive animal farming - Wikipedia

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    Cattle are domesticated ungulates, a member of the family Bovidae, in the subfamily Bovinae, and descended from the aurochs (Bos primigenius). [55] They are raised as livestock for their flesh (called beef and veal), dairy products (milk), leather and as draught animals. As of 2009–2010 it is estimated that there are 1.3–1.4 billion head of ...