http://www.cattlenetwork.com/cattle-news/markets/cattle/prices RSS Feed for Cattle Prices en-us Tue, 29 May 2012 13:10:47 GMT http://www.cattlenetwork.com/cattle-news/markets/cattle/prices/CattleFax-Supplies-decline-on-available-feedlot-replacements-154170705.html CattleFax analyst Lance Zimmerman reviews the week's commodity market activity and provides a forecast for the upcoming week. http://www.cattlenetwork.com/cattle-news/markets/cattle/prices/Canada-cattle-report-Sales-volumes-drop-19-154166065.html Light trade was reported by Wednesday afternoon with local sales generally $1.00 higher than the previous week. http://www.cattlenetwork.com/cattle-news/markets/cattle/prices/Hold-on-tight-138743044.html 2012 promises to be quite a year for the U.S. beef business, with the cow-calf sector poised for record returns and incentive for growth, analysts told a standing-room crowd at the Cattle-Fax Annual Outlook Conference during the Cattle Industry Convention last week. http://www.cattlenetwork.com/cattle-news/markets/cattle/prices/Cattle-prices-drop-slightly-this-week-128416888.html USDA reports cattle trade on Thursday with finished steers and heifers averaging just under $113 per hundredweight, down about a dollar from last-week’s prices. http://www.cattlenetwork.com/cattle-news/markets/cattle/prices/Feedlot-placements-may-have-risen-to-record-in-July-amid-drought-127890408.html The number of cattle sent to feedlots for fattening may have reached an all-time high last month as severe drought in the Southern U.S. Plains forced ranchers to move young animals off withered pastures. http://www.cattlenetwork.com/cattle-news/markets/cattle/prices/Cattle-Outlook-Calf-crop-predicted-down-for-16th-year-126419718.html USDA's July cattle inventory report said the midyear cattle inventory was down 1.1% compared to July 1, 2010 and predicted the 2011 calf crop would total 35.5 million head, down 0.5% from last year, down for the 16th consecutive year, and the smallest calf crop since 1950. http://www.cattlenetwork.com/cattle-news/markets/cattle/prices/July-1-cattle-inventory-down-1-percent-126025568.html All cattle and calves in the United States as of July 1, 2011, totaled 100.0 million head, 1 percent below the 101.1 million on July 1, 2010. http://www.cattlenetwork.com/cattle-news/markets/cattle/prices/US-livestock-review-Cattle-futures-fall-on-signs-of-shrinking-meat-demand-125910873.html Live cattle futures also fell Wednesday on lower wholesale beef prices and growing concerns theat heat wave is boosting supplies as animal producers try to avoid overheating animals. http://www.cattlenetwork.com/cattle-news/markets/cattle/prices/United-States-Cattle-on-Feed-up-4-percent-124085804.html Cattle and calves on feed for slaughter market in the United States for feedlots with capacity of 1,000 or more head totaled 10.9 million head on June 1, 2011. The inventory was 4 percent above June 1, 2010. http://www.cattlenetwork.com/cattle-news/markets/cattle/prices/Kansas-Cattle-on-Feed-up-2-percent-122356134.html The number of cattle on feed on May 1, 2011 in Kansas feedlots with 1,000 head or more capacity totaled 2.17 million head, up 2 percent from a year ago but down 1 percent from April 1. Placements during April totaled 380,000 head, up 21 percent from April 2010 but down 8 percent from March.