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All cattle feeding areas were able to take advantage of the packer’s need for cattle last week and cash prices moved higher.
Four months after announcing a trade agreement lifting longstanding restrictions on U.S. beef exported to Japan, the U.S. has agreed to increase its low-tariff quota for Japanese beef shipped to America.
The $1 threshold seemed to be a sticking point for cattle feeders last week, and many held firm on Friday which could prove to give cash prices a needed boost.
Alternative protein products may have drawn rave reviews and national headlines this year, but research says consumers still prefer real beef produced on real farms.
New research looks at the concept of progressively reducing feed intake throughout the diet-transition period in feedlots, with the goal of maintaining a constant body size.
The new frontier in nutrition research is the rumen microbe population, and new management practices have been shown to improve rumen health.
The cattle industry needs to make some bold, creative changes to ensure its viability, according to speakers at the Feeding Quality Forum held in Amarillo, Texas.
Cattle imports for July were lower than a year ago, but the total for the first seven months of 2019 are higher.
If anything good comes from the Tyson fire, maybe it will be that everyone will realize the burden of our over-committed fed cattle supply.
Poor performance from CME futures on Friday limited what cattle feeders could gain back on the cash market from the declines over the last few weeks.
Cash fed cattle prices moved higher in all regions, with the largest gains found in the north. Feeder cattle sold higher at auctions across the nation.
The most recent FDA figures show substantial drops in medically important antibiotics sales and distribution in all U.S. food animal production. Cattle feeders say the facts leave nothing to hide.
In a head-scratching week of data, estimated cattle slaughter was 9,000 head higher following the Tyson fire, cattle prices were down 5% or more, and yet wholesale beef prices rose 9%.
Cattle markets continued reeling Tuesday as both CME Live Cattle and Feeder Cattle set contract lows following Monday’s locked limit-down performance.
Fed cattle trade was slow to develop in the southern plains with packer bids falling $2 short of steady. Feeder cattle traded at uneven prices across the nation.
Feeder steers sold steady to $2 higher, with instances of heavier cattle selling $6 to $7 higher in special sales in the Southern Plains.
Packers enjoyed a comfortable inventory last week, and many have stopped Saturday harvests, which helped push cash cattle prices $1 per cwt. lower.
Market fundamentals are dynamic and how these fundamentals affect different people in the supply chain and their reaction is the foundation of market analysis.
Packers were able to keep the market suppressed as the trade began last week at $2 back of the previous week.
The 2017 cattle markets have been interesting, and since November 1, Elaine Kub, author of Mastering the Grain Markets, can describe them in one word: wild.
Cattle and beef markets have decreased from April highs with uncertainty in a variety of factors weighing on markets the past month.
The USDA NASS Cattle on Feed report for May was released last Friday. For as large as the numbers are, it has the potential to be bullish.
With the passing of Memorial Day and the unofficial start of summer upon us, sellers of highly marbled, finished cattle are wondering where the demand is.
One of the interesting notes in the cattle market over the last year has been the relatively low level of steer slaughter.
Last week’s fed cattle market saw a wide variation in prices between the south and the north, with some feeders willing to sacrifice one set of cattle in order to get another set in.
Cattle markets have been keeping pace in early 2019 compared to the same first quarter period in 2017 and 2018.
Jessie Ramirez, head of maintenance and equipment operator at Brookover Feed Yard outside Garden City, Kan., has been the model example of what feedlots are looking for from their workforce.
Following the shutdown, fundamental information is slowly returning to normal. The February Cattle on Feed report was released last Friday, with the March report scheduled for its normal date of March 22.
Given the variability and seasonal trends of cattle prices throughout the year, it is necessary to supply an expected annual average cattle price based on given heifer, steer and slaughter cow weights.