U.S. Cattle on Feed in feedlots with capacity of 1,000 or more head totaled 11.549 million head on March 1, 2026 – similar to the year-ago total on March 1, 2025 of 11.577 head. Placements in feedlots during February totaled 1.61 million head - 4 percent above 2025. Marketings of fed cattle during February totaled 1.52 million head - 7 percent below 2025. Other Disappearance totaled 50,000 head during February - 17 percent below 2025. ...
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From WPI Consulting
Communicating importance of value-added products
Facing increasing pressure to quantify the value of export promotion efforts to investors, a U.S. industry organization retained WPI to develop a quantitative model that better communicated the importance of exports. The resulting model concluded that value-added meat exports contributed $0.45 cents per bushel to the price of corn, increasing support for that sector’s financial support of WPI’s client. In addition to serving the red meat industry with this type of analysis, WPI has generated similar deliverables for the U.S. soybean and poultry/egg industries.