Get Cattle Insights at the 2016 Top Producer Seminar

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Cattle producers are invited to attend the 2016 Top Producer Seminar happening Jan. 27-29 in downtown Chicago. As the industry experiences enormous volatility, now is the perfect time to plan for the months ahead.

Click here to register for the event or to learn more. Business education is particularly important at this time as several factors influence price movement.

“The beginning of 2016, big picture, has been overly bearish. You look at energies, crude, natural gas, heating oil. You look at equities, not only domestic but foreign,” says Craig VanDyke, Top Third Ag Marketing. “Big-picture-wise, we’re looking at weakness across all markets, and cattle are one of the more susceptible ones to the outside markets as far as equities go. … The old saying is, ‘Cattle is only as good as the Dow [Jones].’”  

Watch the complete “AgDay” interview with VanDyke by clicking the play button below.

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