# Beef Watch: Canadian cattle herd steady - Canadian Cattlemen

> Canfax reports that the Canadian cattle herd is steady while larger North American protein supplies are pushing prices down. Feedlots are losing money and fall calf prices have disappointed, though cow-calf returns remain above the 10-year average.

- Date: 2016-11-21 · published 2016-11-21T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: market · region Canada · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/73800-beef-watch-canadian-cattle-herd-steady-canadian-cattlemen
- Commodities: [Live Cattle](https://feedsoft.ai/c/LCATTLE.md), [Feeder Cattle](https://feedsoft.ai/c/FCATTLE.md)

## Why it matters

Expanding beef and pork supplies weigh on cattle and feeder prices, which lowers the cost of cattle feed relative to finished animals and pressures feedlot margins.

## Read by commodity

- FCATTLE: bearish ▼
- LCATTLE: bearish ▼

## Sources

- canadiancattlemen.ca: https://www.canadiancattlemen.ca/beef-watch/canadian-cattle-herd-steady/

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