Markets
Cash fed cattle prices reached new record levels Thursday with trades at $170 per cwt.
A long-idle beef processing plant is getting ready to reopen in Tama, Iowa, later this month.
Galant Food Company, a San Leandro, Calif. establishment, is recalling an additional 130 pounds of beef products because the meat filling used in the products did not meet its cooking critical limit.
Performance does not waiver in the face of record prices.
The voluntary removal of Zilmax from the market left several cattle feeders scrambling this past year.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture says a Texas company is recalling nearly 91,000 pounds of ground beef products that might be contaminated with pieces of metal.
Cattle futures set record highs last week, while Choice cutout beef prices saw an increase.
Meat demand is still on the rise despite record high prices.
A meat packer in the Texas Panhandle has recalled nearly 12 tons of beef trimmings products due to possible E. coli contamination.
Cold storage across the U.S. is seeing less and less beef, along with pork, chicken and turkey.
The voluntary removal of Zilmax from the market left several cattle feeders scrambling this past year.
A nonprofit group that supports small and family farms in Kansas is trying to build support for a meat processing facility and food hub project in the eastern part of the state.
The last beef-packing plant in South St. Paul, Minn., says it’s temporarily shutting down to an “extremely short supply of cattle.”
The fed cattle and boxed beef market slowed down this past week.
Cattle futures markets burst out of the gate early this week, setting record highs for both Live Cattle and Feeder Cattle.
A shuttered Kansas processing plant that produced a treated ground beef product critics dubbed “pink slime” plans to reopen next week with limited operations amid rebounding sales.
Volatile cattle market sees a $5 to $7 increase for fed cattle.
The cattle markets are starting to tail off from their summer highs as spring calves are being weaned.
The cattle markets have been in a bit of a sink or swim mode lately, and right now they’re slowly sinking.
In USDA’s latest Cattle On Feed report, inventory numbers, placements and marketings all decreased July.
Thanks to consumer demand beef prices have been at record highs this summer.
Cattle prices continue to skid for the third week in a row.
The Cattle on Feed Report continues to show a decrease in feedlot inventory and placements.
Cattle prices have been put on ice with markets falling off a bit.
A K-State livestock economist explains how tight beef supply has caused several U.S. packing plants to turn off the lights and the economic impacts of these closures.