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The Block is Hot
BEEF: Last week’s harvest was 59K head. I thought the prior week of 512K was low, so let's take another step down, with packers keeping pressure on a…
2 months, 1 week ago
Hopeful Beef Outlook
BEEF: I’m going to start with the weekly beef harvest. Last week’s total was 512K head; the prior week was 528K head. I don’t recall this small a w…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Good News in Beef
BEEF Let’s start with some really good news. For the first time since 2018 the US cattle herd increased by 200K head to 94.2 million head, this howev…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Chicken is the New Beef
BEEF The beef market is continuing lower this week though I do see some slowing in the declines. Production continues restrained with 525K harvested …
2 months, 4 weeks ago
The Pork Belly Race is On
BEEF The beef market continues its summer pull back. Overall market tone is moving lower. I expect we will see this through the end of the month; com…
3 months ago
Soy in Action
BEEF As expected, beef pricing for middle meats is moving lower. Strips, ribeyes and tenderloins all coming off a bit from pre-holiday highs. I expec…
3 months, 1 week ago
The Summer of the Pork Belly
BEEF Beef production last week was 537K head, up from 526K the week prior. We are still in that zone of keeping supplies tight to keep pricing up. Th…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
The Dog Days of Summer
BEEF We hit Independence Day next weekend and the start of the “dog days of summer." Once we get clear of the holiday I do expect we will see a marke…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
The Need for Beef
BEEF We’ll start again with the New World screwworm. We now have 6 confirmed cases in Texas and 1 in New Mexico. Affected animals are a dog, a goat a…
4 months, 1 week ago
Pressure on the Herd
BEEF Let's start with the bad news. We’ve been expecting this to happen for several months, yesterday the USDA announced the discovery of the New Wor…
4 months, 2 weeks ago