For 2025, the Livestock Marketing Information Center calculated estimated cow-calf returns over cash costs at $900 per cow, ...

Dramatic price differences across regions require real-time marketing plan adjustments. I’ve been sick most of the week.

Live cattle futures saw some buying into the Friday close, with contracts up 50 cents to $1.025 and October down 77 cents this week. The Friday morning Fed Cattle Exchange showed no sales on the 2,552 ...

Brad Kooima with Kooima Kooima Varilek says strong cash has been supportive of the cattle futures and he expects a higher week in the fed market again this week. Grains are still digesting USDA's ...

Stocker cattle can undoubtedly be a profitable enterprise, however, there are several considerations that must be accounted ...

Live cattle futures rallied another $1.20 to $1.70 on Friday, as October took the weekly gain to $3.60. Cash trade settled in this week at $240 in the South, with Northern sales of $237-238. The ...

I concluded my Q3 2025 Barchart report on the cattle and hog futures markets with the following: The forward curves for beef and pork futures highlight the expectations for continued tightness and ...

Shawn Hackett with Hackett Financial Advisors says with corn and soybean prices plunging at the beginning of the week in ...