Unhealthy Meat As Gary Blumenthal highlighted last week, a recent study from Harvard indicates that any consumption of red meat increases mortality risk. The author, An Pan, a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard's School of Public Health, said that no amount of red meat is good for you. The study was published online -- not in a medical or academic journal -- by the way. And there are some significant caveats not explained in the media coverage that one can discover by reading the study's abstract.
Of the "observed deaths" among men in the study, only 30 percent were from cardio vascular disease, even though the news articles made it sound like all deaths were meat-induced heart attacks. Among women in the study, 21 percent of the "obse...
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...
