March 1 U.S. Cattle on Feed was down 4 percent from 2022 at 11.6 million head for feedlots with capacity of 1,000 or more. Placements in feedlots during February totaled 1.73 million head - 7 percent below 2022. Marketings of fed cattle during February totaled 1.74 million head - 5 percent below 2022. Other disappearance totaled 58,000 head during February - 2 percent below 2022. ...
What You Need to Know Today: There has already been a strong run of flash soybean sales announcements in recent weeks, but more than 1.4 MMT reported this morning is an exceptionally large single-day total with major implications for the market. If the sales to China and unknown destinations w...
On Friday, at 6:57 AM, President Donald Trump announced, via a social media post, a 90-day window during which up to 300,000 metric tons of product for ground beef could be imported outside of tariff-rate quotas—a move aimed at bringing down costs for American consumers. This is the secon...
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