Markets
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.
All classes of cattle and calves traded lower this week, pulled down by the bear’s strangle hold on the futures markets.
The USDA-AMS is seeking public input on possible revisions to the U.S. Standards for Grades of Carcass Beef to adjust for recent improvements and trends in animal raising and feeding.
The man in charge of resurrecting a scandal-marred beef plant that has sat idle since 2012 is optimistic about the Aberdeen, S.D., facility’s future.
Possible record corn crops are a good sign for beef producers.
Increased heifer retention is having an impact both on the fed cattle market and at the packer.
Both the fed cattle and beef cutout markets have taken a slight downturn, but things should turn around and head back towards record highs.
Researchers examine how temperament of cattle could affect their immune function and carcass merit.
Pasture values are increasing at a faster rate than cropland. The trend could continue with on-going profitability in the cattle market.
Beef costs are poised to rise further as feeder-cattle futures climbed to cap the longest rally in 37 years amid mounting U.S. supply concerns.
Pastures are in better condition this summer than anytime in past 10 years, that’s a good sign for herd rebuilding.