Fed Cattle
Livestock economists working with the Iowa Beef Center and Iowa State University Extension have created a new tool to help cattle producers develop marketing strategy.
By the numbers, cattle producers with summer stockers and cow-calf operations should be experiencing a bit less stress about the market this year.
With beef liver prices depressed at around $3 at the packer level, liver condemnations due to abscesses represent a relatively minor economic problem.
The 5-Area Accumulated Average Cattle Price decreased from $102.79 as of October 3 to $101.12 as of October 10.
The 5-Area Accumulated Average Cattle Price saw a drop from $120.82 on June 21 to $116.64 on June 28. The panel of cattle industry experts who make up our Monday Market Sentiment predicted $124.68 per hundredweight. Thi
Did you have a good Memorial Day weekend celebrating the service heros of our past and present? We sure hope so! We’re taking this week off on the poll, but stay tuned for the next chance to throw in your guess ne
Why do youth livestock show animals require extra paperwork when marketed to a packer? The April 6th speaker for the Animal Care Wednesday Webinar was Paula Alexander, Project Manager of Tyson’s Sustainable Food P
The 5-Area Accumulated Average Cattle Price fell this week from $126.55 on April 26 to $123.78 on May 3. The panel of cattle industry experts who make up our Monday Market Sentiment had an average guess of $12
The 5-Area Accumulated Average Cattle Price decreased this week from $133.97 on April 19 to $126.55 on April 26. The panel of cattle industry experts who make up our Monday Market Sentiment had an average guess of
The 5-Area Accumulated Average Cattle Price slightly increased this week from $133.91 on April 12 to $133.97 on April 19.
The 5-Area Accumulated Average Cattle Price slightly decreased this week from $133.96 on April 4 to $133.91 on April 12. The panel of cattle industry experts who make up our Monday Market Sentiment had an average g
The 5-Area Accumulated Average Cattle Price saw a little luck this week, jumping from $135.66 on March 7 to $137.88 on March 14.
Israel has reopened to U.S. beef for the first time since December 2003. Israel was one of many countries to suspend imports of U.S. beef following confirmation of the first BSE case in the United States, and is one of
As expected, President Barack Obama vetoed a measure that would have killed the EPA’s Waters of the U.S. (WOTUS) rule.
The United States Department of Agriculture released its monthly World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates on Tuesday that give a closer look into beef supplies and price projections for 2016. While the numbers are
Compared to last week, the bulk of the calves traded mostly 5.00-15.00 lower with yearlings selling 5.00-10.00 lower. There were instances throughout the trade areas mostly in the Northern Plains and Midwest where 500-7
Winter storm Jonas has dumped record snowfall on the east coast causing near total shutdown of several major cities and across a large region. Impacts from deep snow, power outages and coastal flooding will continue fo
The 5-Area Accumulated Average Cattle Price dropped slightly this week from $136.13 on February 29 to $135.66 on March 7.
What goes up must come down! That is exactly what has happened to cattle prices, but the task now is determining where the market is headed in 2016 and beyond. As is the normal procedure, taking a look backwards will he
Cattle and hog margins are headed south as supplies build and packers run near capacity.
After a software error caused beef carcasses to be inaccurately reported for grades and weights, JBS is a paying a fine and reimbursing producers who were impacted.
