Markets
Demand remains strong for females
Despite diminished grazing prospects in many regions, demand for bred and breeding-age females remains strong. Even at auctions in the heart of drought-stressed Texas and Oklahoma, cow buyers showed their optimism this month with steady to stronger bids
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Indicators lower as profit margins decline
September corn prices fell 20 cents a bushel, but that didn’t help feeding and packing margins. Profit margins for both segments, already in the red as the month began, dropped further throughout the month.
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Discounts for Standard-grading carcasses
Welcome to the Premium Market Snapshot — a series of market commentaries focused squarely on trends in quality grading and in the production and sales of high-quality beef. This snapshot explores the grid discounts associated with USDA Standard-grading carcasses.
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August stocker/feeder markets retreat
Stocker/feeder prices posted significant declines during August. Dry range conditions forced many ranchers to send cattle to market.
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Female prices mixed during July
Drought-forced liquidation of many herds in the southwest has only had a minimal impact on prices. Prices are somewhat lower, but demand for cows remains strong, according to Drovers/CattleNetwork’s monthly analysis of female prices.
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Indicators turn lower on cattle, grain prices
August’s measure of the beef industry’s economic health put four of the eight arrows pointing lower in Drovers/CattleNetwork’s monthly analysis.
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Indicators push higher, but caution is ahead
July’s measure of the beef industry’s economic health put five of the eight arrows pointing higher in the monthly analysis from Drovers/CattleNetwork.
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Premium ground chuck pricing trend
Welcome to the Premium Market Snapshot, a series of market commentaries focused squarely on trends in quality grading and in the production and sales of high-quality beef.
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Stocker/feeder markets post mid-year rally
Stocker/feeder prices posted a significant rally during July, despite hot, dry range conditions that forced many ranchers to send cattle to market.
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Female prices mixed during July
Female markets have tended to march to their own drummer during much of 2011, and July prices produced a mixture of higher and lower prices.
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Indicators find summer slump
Cattle prices continued working their way lower during June, pulling industry indicators and summer expectations down with them.
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- Prices for corn and soybeans, five years from now
- Drier weather to give big boost to U.S. corn plantings
- Agriculture is expected to remain strong in the coming decade
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- The relationship between retail gasoline prices and futures prices
