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Boxed beef cutout prices set all-time highs this past week.
The cattle markets have hit the brakes a bit as the peak of grilling season arrives.
Tyson Foods Inc. has signed a definitive deal to purchase Hillshire Brands Co. for $7.75 billion.
The fed cattle and beef markets are seeing unprecedented prices, especially for this time in the year.
Broad industry coalition asks Congress to prevent WTO non-compliance on Country of Origin Labeling.
Pinnacle Foods said Monday it has scrapped its sale to Hillshire Brands, freeing Hillshire to be acquired by Tyson Foods.
Cash cattle prices took out highs set back in March this week, a feat few expect from a June market.
Cattle slaughter in Canada is poised to fall to the lowest in almost two decades as worker shortages constrain production.
The number of cattle entering feedlots is down 1.6% compared to last year at 10.59 million head on June 1.
Fewer cattle and higher prices are a continuing trend with the Cattle on Feed Report.
All areas of the beef industry continue to see higher price gains.
This past week was one for the record books in the futures market.
Baltimore police shot and killed a steer that escaped from a city slaughterhouse on a downtown street Friday morning.
Domestic market growth could be coming to a standstill.
Pilgrim’s Pride launched a takeover bid for Hillshire Brands on Tuesday that would expand its business beyond fresh and frozen chicken into a variety of packaged meats, including Ball Park hot dogs and Jimmy Dean sausages.
A $2.1 million bankruptcy trial against a failed beef packing plant in Aberdeen, S.D., is expected to last through the rest of week.
A college student sickened at a Detroit-area restaurant has sued a packing company that recalled 1.8 million pounds of ground beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli.
Fed cattle market is on a slight decline while other markets hold steady.
Fewer cattle entering the packing plant means less beef in the freezer.
Federal food safety officials say ground beef recalled by a Detroit business may have been sent to stores in 10 states.
ABC’s news anchor Diane Sawyer, two of the network’s correspondents and other defendants in a $1.2 billion defamation lawsuit against the company related to its coverage of a meat product could be deposed following a ruling by the South Dakota Supreme Court.
Officials say a Detroit-based business is recalling about 1.8 million pounds of ground beef products sold for restaurant use in four states that may be contaminated with the bacteria E. coli.
For the 21st month in a row the amount of cattle on feed has decreased from the previous year.
The beef market continues to chug along at a record pace.
JBS SA, the world’s biggest meat producer, reported an unexpected 69 percent decline in first- quarter profit after currency-hedging costs partly erased gains from its poultry businesses.
A North Dakota meatpacking plant that began as a facility to process beef according to Islamic law is going on the auction block.
Cattle prices have started to moderate after reaching unexplained record highs in the first four months of the year.
There are more steers in feedlots this April, but fewer heifers. It could be a sign of herd expansion.
Beef producers are seeing record high prices for their cattle, but how did we get here?