Livestock and Grain Markets, Prices & Futures
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Latest News from Markets
USDA has increased its forecast of U.S. beef production.
U.S. feedlots unexpectedly increased the number of cattle purchased in December compared with a year earlier, a government report showed.
Cattle slaughtering in the U.K. dropped to the lowest level since at least 1970 last year, as herd sizes declined to the smallest in decades, the Agriculture & Horticulture Development Board said.
Can changes to a cow’s energy intake during the second trimester enhance the quality of beef her offspring will produce? What effect might it have on the reproductive ability of the cow’s offspring?
Packers came into the week bidding aggressively and the result was another week of record-high prices.
Change and volatility are commonplace in today’s agricultural markets, and those trends have been no different in cattle marketing for nearly 20 years.
The live cattle market should begin creeping up the next several weeks as it searches for its fall high which precedes the holiday season.
CEO steps down, then says he’s retaking role hours later.
With three-quarters of 2016 nearly in the books, we see continued expansion of the beef cow heard and continued increases in beef production.
It is abnormal for live cattle prices to continue finding new summer lows this late in the summer.