Stocker
Since the turn of the calendar, feeder cattle futures have been mainly trading sideways except for Thursday when the market moved the limit lower.
The futures market is showing signs of finding a bottom but nothing is guaranteed.
The health of stocker cattle on wheat can be managed to increase profit.
Grazing calves on corn residue and providing supplemental distillers grains is a cost effective way to add value to weaned calves.
Reason and logic in a normal year would indicate prices are near the bottom, but the market could continue to act contra-seasonally and dip further.
Beef cow-calf producers have worked hard since that 60 to 90 pound calf hit the ground in the late winter-early spring calving season.
Market prices for fed cattle in 2015 are headed in exactly the opposite direction of where they were headed the fall of 2014.
Cow/calf producers can add significant value by implementing a preconditioning program, which can pay off all the way through to the feedlot.
Cattle producers looking to pick up the latest information about maximizing livestock and wheat resources under variable and sometimes volatile weather and market conditions should register now to attend the July 28 Cattle Trails Wheat and Stocker Conference in Lawton, Okla.
A stocker cattle program is set for July 8 at the West Auction Barn, 20645 N. Interstate Highway 35 in West, Texas.
The seventh annual Deep South Stocker Conference is headed to Alabama.
High cattle prices make it important to prevent stocker cattle from having bovine respiratory disease (BRD).
Diagnosing BRD is easy, says Mike Apley, Kansas State University microbiologist—as long as nobody’s checking your accuracy, that is.
The price slide between feeder cattle of various weights are setting extreme records this year
DDGS plus salt as a self-fed supplement boosted cattle gains and curbed indirect expenses.
Hamburger demand has kept lean beef prices up, it has also kept cull cow and bull prices on the increase.
It’s been talked about for 60 years. It’s better for animals, preferred by most cattle feeders and could provide a 169% return on investment.
Live cattle traded for $160 to $161 to end last week, while beef prices were up from the previous week.
Cattle prices are up significantly from last year, while beef prices slide from last week.
The price slide between feeder cattle of various weights are settings records in the extreme this year. Producers must analyze costs and breakevens carefully.
Even though calves may have been on a backgrounding program for several months, it doesn’t mean they are safe from subsequent health issues later on in the feeding period.
Cattle futures showing that prices may have been inflated the past few months.
As the nation’s cowherd enters into an expansion, several key factors are at play, says Darrell Peel, ag economist, Oklahoma State University at the 2015 NCBA Cattlemen’s College.
Fed cattle prices rebounded to start 2015 out after several weeks of losses in December.
The record high beef prices that were the norm for much of the year have continued to drop off.
Most of 2014 saw record high prices, but the downward trend in the beef and cattle markets looks like it could carry into the New Year.
Fed cattle prices fell on a live basis and beef prices also saw a slight decrease.