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Bartlett announces a $325 million investment in soybean processing with a planned crushing facility in Southeast Kansas. The facility will create 50 permanent jobs and process about 110,000 bushels of soybeans per day.

Beef exports during August were an all-time record for any month. U.S. beef exports continue to be fueled mostly by the strong growth in the China/HK market, up 160.5 percent year over year in August.

The number of high end market ready cattle should be limited for the next several weeks. If the cattle feeder has any opportunity to take any of the margin from the packer the time may be upon us.

For producers relying on winter pasture to grow purchased or retained calves, weekend rains be what was needed to give us the prospect of at least some wheat grazing, although probably a month later than normal.

We are rapidly approaching the point where we may soon be discussing the cattle cycle in terms of GHGs rather than forage supplies and producer profits.

Vytelle, a precision livestock company, announces the closure of an oversubscribed Series A funding worth USD $13.2 million.

China said on Saturday it pressed the United States to eliminate tariffs in talks between the countries’ top trade officials that Washington saw as a test of bilateral engagement between the world’s biggest economies.

The White House’s executive order signed in September requires all USDA employees to be vaccinated by Nov. 22, and includes county FSA offices and employees, as well as elected county committee members who are paid.

Overall declines in U.S. beef imports are tied to significant declines from Australia, and that’s a trend likely to continue into next year, Steiner Consulting Group analyst says.