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Cattle inventory in Tennessee increased 6.4 percent to 1.83 million head while the beef cow herd increased 2.6% to 896,000 head.

Cattlemen and women gathered today at the 2014 Cattle Industry Convention and National Cattlemen’s Beef Association Trade Show to hear CattleFax market analysts’ projections for the year ahead.

Frank and Sims Price Ranch, Sterling City, Texas, was named the national winner of the National Cattlemen’s Foundation Environmental Stewardship Award Program.

Will the cattle market keep sliding in 2016? Could there be a rally? See what the analysts from CattleFax have to say.

Steps are being taken by CME Group to address volatility in the cattle markets, although producers will still have to deal with a bearish marketplace.

The trade agreement might be one of the biggest opportunities to turn-around a sliding cattle market.

USDA’s January Cattle on Feed report said December placements were down 0.8% while marketings were up 1.1%.

A 2.5% to 3% expansion in the U.S. cowherd likely

An increasing amount of consumers want to know more about their food and are looking for local products. Beef producers have started to catch onto that trend and are seeing success in starting their own branded beef programs.

Cow-calf production occurs across most of the U.S. in a wide variety of production environments.