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For JBS, the Venezuelan market now has special significance. It has a $2.1 billion contract and provides almost half the meat and a quarter of the chicken eaten by 28 million carnivorous Venezuelans.

Cattle prices are very good, but for how long? The more people jump into production, the greater the likelihood of prices falling.

A couple of top SEC football teams got a boost to their protein intake this preseason thanks to their local cattlemen’s association feeding them beef.

Smuggler packaged meat as fish, nets $300 penalty.

Cash cattle prices took a drubbing this week with fed cattle prices $4 to $5 lower at $144 to $145 per cwt. Dressed sales were reported $4 to $6 lower at $228 per cwt.

The semiannual cattle inventory report from USDA confirmed that beef cow expansion is continuing.

Consumer demand for livestock products continues to be important in determining the pressure on livestock prices in the coming months.

This month’s cattle on feed report noted 2.6% more cattle in 1,000 head capacity feedlots than last August 1.

The up and down stock market looks to impact beef demand.

Cow-herds are still expanding in the U.S.