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Taco Meat Tuesday | October 27th, 2026

HOST: Protein Pulse Drive Time. Taco Meat Tuesday, October 27th. From The Sparks Group.

SHAWN: A twenty-two cent drop in eighty-fives while nineties sit flat isn't a normal market, it's numbers all over the place. Black is white, up is down. When daily economics flip that fast, you can't manage procurement from a weekly composite. The buyers winning right now are re-specifying ground beef inputs on the fly to exploit the spread between fat trim and lean boneless. Overhead, Brazil's real is dropping after their election, theoretically making export beef cheaper. But paper talk doesn't fill a truck. Don't mistake currency tickers for real plant savings. Until an importer hands you a confirmed landed offer covering freight, tariffs, and transit time, it isn't real. In a market this inverted, forget the theoretical models. Stay grounded in what you can actually buy, run, and deliver to the dock today.

HOST: Fresh eighty-fives at three eleven, down twenty-two forty-three cents. Nineties near three eighty-eight. Choice grade cutout at three sixty-nine forty-four, up three sixty-five. Pork cutout at seventy-three eighty. Chicken breast at one thirteen. West Texas Crude at one oh one seventy-six. Ultra-Low Sulfur Diesel at four ninety-one.

SHAWN: USDA opened applications for five billion dollars in processing loans. Columbus reportedly reopened. Brazil's second Newcastle outbreak is restricting poultry access. Stay grounded in what you can actually buy. Stay disciplined.

HOST: Protein Pulse Drive Time. Shawn Sparks, The Sparks Group.

SHAWN: Stay disciplined.