Packer margins jump higher, feeding margins bleak
Higher wholesale beef prices helped drive beef packer margins significantly higher last week, but cattle feeding margins saw only minimal improvement. Average pork producer margins remain positive. FULL STORY »LATEST NEWS
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How high do you expect Choice Boxed Beef prices to reach this summer?
STERLING PROFIT TRACKER
- Packer margins jump higher, feeding margins bleak
- Cattle feeding losses exceed $100, packers in the black
- Feeding margins take a step backwards, packing margins improve
- Feeding, packing margins continue improvement
- Margins improve for cattle feeders, packers
- Losses increase for cattle feeders and packers
MARKETS
- Ag markets generally mixed again Tuesday morning
- Will this summer be a repeat of 2012?
- Farmland values: Not falling but not accelerating as fast
- Showers to slow U.S. corn seedings from blistering pace
- Oil falls on concern about Federal Reserve direction
- Texas to Mexico Daily Livestock Exports
PROFIT TIPS
- Profit Tips: Equipment - Easy pen access
- Profit Tips: Pasture Management - Consider seeding legumes
- Profit Tips: Cow-Calf - Decisions on calf implants
- Profit Tips: Facilities - Water improvements during drought
- Profit Tips: Equipment - Easy trailer hookup
- Profit Tips: Cattle Feeding - The value of carcass gain
WEATHER
- Weather report: Thunderstorms dot the southern Plains
- Weather report: Rain spreads across the Corn Belt
- Weather report: Thundershowers in the upper Midwest
- Drought far from over in western plains
- Weather report: Very warm in the Corn Belt
- Weather report: Very warm across the central Plains
FEEDER CATTLE
- Ag markets generally mixed again Tuesday morning
- Schwieterman: Feeders get a boost overnight with lower corn trade
- Corn market reacted poorly to the Crop Progress data
- Tulsa, OK Wtd Avg Cattle
- Texas to Mexico Daily Livestock Exports
- New Mexico to Mexico Livestock Exports
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- Survey reveals most Americans in favor of COOL
- Ag markets were mixed to start the new week
