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POLL
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
- Corn futures relapse in wake of Wednesday's rally
- Wet U.S. Midwest sections may lead to fewer corn acres
- Exports: Corn plunges 52 percent
- Here is the next farm program and here’s how you work it
- Oil drops below $102 on demand doubts
- 5 Area Daily Wtd Avg Direct Slaughter Cattle - Negotiated
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
- Where’s the rain? Parched states can’t shake the drought
- Weather report: Very cool in the Corn Belt
- 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
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- New animal identification rules aid disease traceability
- More beef cows in worst drought regions than a year ago
