Both the beef and swine herds are in expansion mode, but cattle and hogs are looking at different price forecasts compared with last year.Cattle prices ended 2016 on a bearish note and are expected to remain well below last year’s levels until late into 2017. At that point, they will be about equal to the low point of last year’s price range. The 31 January cattle inventory report showed continued herd expansion for the third straight year. Such growth occurred in 27 states with the largest increase on the Great Plains as pasture conditions improved. Moreover, this was spurred by good profitability for cattle producers in 2014 and 2015. However, that financial return is now being squeezed with rising red meat production, which is a signal t...
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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