A cattle cycle is a period when the nation’s number of beef cattle is alternately expanded and reduced for several consecutive years in response to perceived changes in profitability of production. The last cycle span had three years of growth followed by a seven-year liquidation. 2015 Started New Cattle Cycle Year-end 2015 statistics are in for the beef cattle industry, and they show 2015 gross income from cattle and calves for the United States totaled $78.8 billion, a 4 percent drop from the 2014 record of $82.1 billion. All cattle and calf marketings during 2015 totaled 52.4 billion pounds, down 1 percent from the previous year. This was combined with the market year average price received for cattle greater than or equal to 500 pound...
What You Need to Know Today: Commodities were mostly lower across the board today after yesterday’s Federal Reserve meeting hinted at a potential interest rate hike later in 2026. The dollar index reached its highest level in over a year, and a strong dollar makes U.S. agricultural expor...
Tomorrow is the Juneteenth federal holiday, and the USDA, along with the rest of the federal government and the CME, will be closed, so the monthly Cattle on Feed report was released a day early. The total number of cattle on feed in feedlots with 1,000 head or more capacity on 1 June amounted...
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