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The 2014 Beef Feedlot Roundtables from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln are available online as webinars.

Beef exports have continued to rise at a rapid rate, while domestic demand has been steady.

Cattle prices have started to moderate after reaching unexplained record highs in the first four months of the year.

Cattle feeding margins jumped nearly $17 per head higher last week to average $196.50.

Beef producers are seeing record high prices for their cattle, but how did we get here?

There are more steers in feedlots this April, but fewer heifers. It could be a sign of herd expansion.

Prices for young cattle extended a rally to a record, climbing for the 10th straight session and on pace for the longest rising streak since 1977.

U.S. feedlots unexpectedly bought 4.7 percent fewer cattle in March than a year earlier, as herds declined in Texas, Oklahoma and Washington state, a government report showed.

Feeder-cattle futures surged to a record today and headed for the longest rally in 22 years on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

Fewer cattle on feed in April than expected.

There were 4.7% fewer cattle in feedlots this March compared to 2013.

The cattle market in Kentucky dropped during the month of March for calf prices and fed cattle prices.

Corbitt Wall with USDA gives the weekly Feeder and Stocker Cattle Summary for the week ending April 18.

Fed cattle continue pace with a sixth month of record highs.

Country of origin labeling (COOL) has been vilified for quite some time; an end might be in sight.

Strong cattle prices open door to performing management practices that could make a good year even better.

A South Dakota State University adjunct economics professor says cattle feeding margins moved back into the black in the first quarter of 2014 after nearly three years of deep losses.

Exports continue to 'beef' up a record cattle market.

Friday's jobs report was somewhat encouraging. More people with jobs is positive for meat demand.

Beef feedlot managers, owners, employees and supporting industry personnel attended presentations for the latest in feedlot health, nutrition, environment and economics.

Uniformity or consistency may be desirable in both management and marketing aspects of cattle production.

Breweries in Nebraska say a federal proposal would force them to stop giving spent grains to local farmers to use as cattle feed.

Look for record high beef prices to continue.

Fed cattle prices set new record highs this week.

Stocker and feeder cattle were called unevenly steady to $3 per cwt. higher for the week, though prices on popular weights leveled off after last week’s rally.

There are more cattle on feed in South Dakota now than last year.

Feedyards aggressively placed cattle on feed last month, with 1.65 million new arrivals during February, according to USDA.

Corbitt Wall gave the Weekly National Feeder Cattle Summary report for the week ending March 21.

Merck Animal Health releases a statement in response to a Texas Tech scientist's article that raises concern over the use of beta agonists in beef cattle.

New research into the use of beta agonists released this week raises concerns about the animal health and welfare of feedlot cattle.

Weakness in futures markets this week spilled over into the cash markets, yet traders noted boxed beef prices pushed significantly higher.

Record-high cash fed cattle prices helped boost cattle feeding margins over $280 per head last week.

Corbitt Wall gives the Feeder and Stocker Cattle summary for the week ending February 28.

Cash fed cattle prices rallied $5 to $6 per cwt. higher on a live basis this week, and $7 to $10 higher on a dressed basis.

Fewer cattle on feed numbers imply lower fed cattle slaughter and beef production ahead.

Nebraska has surpassed Texas in the number of cattle in the state being fattened for slaughter, according to the latest federal statistics.

Higher cash prices and lower feed costs have pushed cattle feeding profits past $250 per head, a margin unthinkable just a few months ago.

USDA’s annual cattle inventory report confirmed what the industry had been suspecting for the past year — another year of contraction.

South Dakota feedlots with capacities of 1,000 or more animals had 240,000 cattle on feed on Feb. 1, up 7 percent from last year.

Corbitt Wall gave the weekly USDA Feeder and Stocker Cattle summary for the week ending Feb. 21.

Recent record-high cattle prices and lower feed costs could offer producers the profit incentives they need to start expanding their herds after U.S. beef cattle numbers at the start of this year reached their lowest point since 1951.

Higher cattle prices and lower feed costs have translated into tidy profits for cattle feeders.

Lower feeder steer prices were most apparent on the Southern Plains as farmer-feeders in the Northern Plains kept prices steady.

Managing forage and water goes a long way toward profitability.

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.

It is important to capture added value when it comes times to sell calves.

How can the beef industry increase the percentage of superior carcasses?

The USDA feeder cattle report for the week ending January 31 confirmed the inventory drop showing cattle and calves nearly 2% lower than last year’s numbers.

U.S. feedlots unexpectedly increased the number of cattle purchased in December compared with a year earlier, a government report showed.

Both packers and feeders are operating with positive margins.