Figure 1 shows weekly cattle slaughter by federally inspected plants since 2020. From 2020 to 2024, cattle slaughter largely remained between 600,000 and 700,000 head per week, but it has dipped to ...

Packer margins rebound from $350 losses as choice cutout jumps $10.70 while slaughter remains tight despite available capacity nationwide.

USDA’s semi-annual cattle inventory report confirmed the smallest herd in 75 years. This comes as the cattle industry is still healing from consecutive years of drought, but the surprise is that ...

Brad Kooima with Kooima Kooima Varilek says there were a couple of reasons the market ignored the strike and the biggest was ...

Cattle and hog futures started lower on Friday morning. Grains markets saw pressure in corn and wheat with a little bounce in soybeans. Cattle Start Weak Awaiting Cash Direction Live and feeder cattle ...

About 3,800 JBS meatpacking workers in Greeley, Colorado, plan to go on strike starting Monday, the workers' union said on ...

Live cattle futures are up a dime in the front month December, with other contracts down $1 to $1.50. Cash trade has picked up ahead of the holiday, with a few $229 sales reported this week, steady to ...

ATLANTA (AP) – Georgia is the nation’s biggest producer of broiler chickens, but small farmers for years have been pushed to the margins of this lucrative industry because they don’t have access to ...

Many cattle producers may be locking in strong earnings with 2025-26 shaping as a bumper year for value and exports, but if official predictions are correct the cycle may soon be turning for Australia ...