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Beef packers were forced to pay up to acquire inventory last week and the result was a boost to feedyard profits and increasing packer losses. Pork prices and margins saw little change.

Soybeans Make New Lows....Again and Pull down Corn and Wheat

Neither Choice nor Select is driving the business. As a result, the Choice/Select spread is increasingly irrelevant in the marketplace. Rather, Modest-or-better marbling is the true cutoff in terms of value differentiation.

Cattle producers are continuously seeking better ways to do things, and this is why the cattle industry has continued to raise high quality beef to feed the world.

Calves fed quality nutrition help meet the needs of cattle buyers allowing you to generate additional value.

The Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment Meat Cutting School offers fun and impactful hands-on workshops, adding valuable skills to the labor force in Kentucky’s meat processing industry.

Certified Sampler program is designed to train feedlot personnel on techniques to obtain proper samples for accurate diagnosis and surveillance of infectious pathogens in cattle.

Although we are missing USDA’s mid-year cattle count, a fairly accurate estimate of the current herd size can be determined though readily available marketing data.