John Nalivka

John Nalivka is the president of Sterling Marketing, Inc., which provides economic research and market advisory services to the livestock and meat industries. He became affiliated with Sterling in 1991 as executive vice president and he has owned the company since 1994. Nalivka serves clients across the red meat supply chain from producers to end-users.

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Unhedged feedlot closeouts are posting their steepest losses in years, but tight supplies and resilient consumer beef demand paint a very different picture from the 2015–16 crash.
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First published in 2001, John Nalivka’s analysis shows why mandatory origin labeling threatens consumer demand, ignores grinding beef economics, and invites unintended regulatory burdens.
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High beef prices stem from basic supply and demand—not market failure. Government intervention will only stall the recovery.
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