Feeder
Check out the Sterling Marketing Profit Tracker for the week of June 21.
Are you measuring the impact of your current calf management decisions? And assessing the potential added value of implementing management practices that you currently don’t employ?
Arkansas extension livestock economist James Mitchell explains the role of the cattle cycle, the changing relationship between calf and feeder cattle prices, and the implications for basis.
Technology, genetics and market signals must align to drive meaningful improvements in beef production. Meat scientist Dale Woerner says the industry needs to move from simply measuring weight to understanding the true composition and efficiency of cattle.
The Nebraska and Iowa/Minnesota reporting regions continue to lead the way with a trading range from $239 to $244/cwt.
Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins announces plans to reopen Moore Air Base in Texas as a New World screwworm sterile fly distribution facility. Long-term production is anticipated to be 300 million sterile flies per week.
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Association news important to cattle producers.
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In addition to the improvement of feed efficiency, ionophores have a derived benefit of preventing and controlling digestive disorders such as acidosis and bloat.
With cattle values at record highs, Livestock Risk Protection offers producers a risk management tool. Learn what it covers and how it works.
Check out Sterling Marketing’s Profit Tracker from week of May 31.
Lee Schulz and Chip Flory discuss current supply and demand in the beef and pork industries and what’s ahead.
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Check out the Sterling Marketing Beef Profit Tracker ending week of May 10.
Unpack two key factors likely resulting in record cattle prices and impacts to the industry.
Fundamental supply and demand have taken control of spot fed cattle values over April Live Cattle futures lows.
Check out the Sterling Marketing’s Profit Tracker ending the week of May 3.
Improvements in genetics, management practices and technology are working together to produce higher fed cattle weights and increased carcass quality.
The buyer group, led by an Oklahoma rancher, plans to continue ONSY’s operations, which includes more than 350,000 annually selling through the stockyards.
Check out the Sterling Marketing Profit Tracker for the week ending April 26.
Check out the Beef Profit Tracker for week of April 19.
The fed cattle market was sharply higher last week with a $4.29/cwt. upward move.
Check out the Sterling Marketing Beef Profit Tracker ending April 12.
Kansas stocker uses strategies to add value to discounted calves that are not typically desired in the marketplace.
The 2025 fed cattle harvest has run very close to a year ago with the full production weeks averaging 473,000 head, a 1,600-head increase over the same period last year.
Check out the Sterling Marketing Beef Profit Tracker ending March 29.
Last week’s fed cattle trade was highlighted by sales late Friday that featured substantially higher prices as packer demand for spot market cattle pressed prices higher in all regions.
The Sterling Marketing Beef Profit Tracker shows current breakeven price in the $170s/cwt compares to $200/cwt for currently placed cattle.