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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. List of traded commodities - Wikipedia

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    Livestock and meat. Commodity Contract size Currency Main exchange Symbol Lean Hogs: 40,000 lb (20 tons) USD ($) Chicago Mercantile Exchange: HE Live Cattle: 40,000 ...

  4. List of most valuable crops and livestock products - Wikipedia

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    The value and production of individual crops varies substantially from year to year as prices fluctuate on the world and country markets and weather and other factors influence production. This list includes the top 50 most valuable crops and livestock products but does not necessarily include the top 50 most heavily produced crops and ...

  5. One of the objects of the charged conspiracy was to hamper and impede the Packers and Stockyard Division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture in its regulation of fair livestock markets.

  6. Live export - Wikipedia

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    According to Meat and Livestock Australia, 2.44 million sheep were exported to markets in Asia and the Middle East in 2012, [5] reduced from 4.2 million in 2008. [6] The total number of cattle exported in 2012 was 617, 301, down 11% from the previous year. Indonesia accounted for 45% of total live cattle exports from Australia in 2012.

  7. Livestock transportation - Wikipedia

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    Throughout most of human prehistory and history, the primary means of livestock transportation was by droving.The reason was usually either for seasonal grazing movement (to move them to a summer grazing range or to move them to an overwintering range or shelter) or to bring them to market of one form or another, whether bartering livestock (between farmers) or selling them (whether as stores ...

  8. Union Stockyards (Omaha) - Wikipedia

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    In 1947 they were second to Chicago in the world. Omaha overtook Chicago as the nation's largest livestock market and meat packing industry center in 1955, a title which it held onto until 1971. [3] The 116-year-old institution closed in 1999. [4] The Livestock Exchange Building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. [5]

  9. Heat, humidity kill hundreds of US cattle during world's ...

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    Hundreds of cattle died in Iowa from extreme heat and humidity in late July, the state and livestock producers said, as the world recorded its hottest month ever. The losses further trim the U.S ...