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Articles

What Four Questions Will Cattle Market Need to Answer in 2025?

Jan 8, 2025 | drovers.com | Kenny Burdine |Michelle Rook |Chris Bennett |Maggie Malson
What Four Questions Will Cattle Market Need to Answer in 2025?

Jan 8, 2025 | drovers.com | Kenny Burdine |Michelle Rook |Chris Bennett |Maggie Malson
What's Driving Prices?

Jan 8, 2025 | drovers.com | Michelle Rook |Chris Bennett |Maggie Malson |Jim Wiesemeyer

Cash fed cattle trade hit all time highs last week. The North led the advance with negotiated dressed prices at mostly $312 to $315 and live sale prices mostly $200 paid by majors. However, according to Brad Kooima of Kooima Kooima Varilek in Sioux Center, Iowa, there were even some trades higher than that. “Without giving packers names, I can come up with five, I believe, that paid $200 here in our neck of the woods on Friday.
USMEF Looks At Red Meat Trade Opportunities With Mexico, Canada and the United Kingdom

Jan 7, 2025 | drovers.com | Maggie Malson |Michelle Rook |Chris Bennett |Jim Wiesemeyer

With a new presidential administration set to take over leadership this month, what new opportunities might be available for red meat exports? Erin Borror, U.S. Meat Export Federation Vice President of Economic Analysis, says there are two areas of interest. First, the U.S. Mexico Canada Agreement (USMCA) will be reviewed in 2026 and Borror says we need to maintain tariff-free trade with the two key trading partners with little barriers.
A Healthy Rumen in Cattle Affects Overall Health and Profitability

Dec 5, 2024 | drovers.com | Maggie Malson |Jamie Sears Rawlings |Jennifer Shike |Chris Bennett

The primary goal of a cow-calf producer is to have a live calf at weaning and as many as possible for your operation. Rumen health is a key factor in achieving and maintaining pregnancy, birthing a healthy live calf and passing along a good amount of colostrum to give that calf its best start.
Trust In Beef Expands Solution-Set for Ranch-Gate Conservation with New Partnerships

Dec 5, 2024 | drovers.com | Jamie Sears Rawlings |Jennifer Shike |Chris Bennett |Mark Johnson

Since the program’s founding two years ago, Trust In Beef™ has been working to empower beef producers on their sustainability journeys by leveraging the power of Farm Journal’s Trust In Food™ and Drovers brands with the ingenuity and innovation of private-sector and non-profit partners.
This South Dakota Rancher Is Prepared To Seize Each Opportunity

Dec 5, 2024 | drovers.com | Margy Eckelkamp |Jamie Sears Rawlings |Jennifer Shike |Chris Bennett

South Dakota farmer and rancher Christine Hamilton doesn’t point to one person or one particular event that has brought Christiansen Land and Cattle (CLC) success. But rather, she credits systems for outfitting her team to be prepared to seize each opportunity. “Everything is a system with lots of moving parts. We try to find leverage in the system to make things better.
Profit Tracker: Beef and Pork Packers See Losses Grow

Dec 4, 2024 | drovers.com | Jennifer Shike |Chris Bennett |Mark Johnson |Rhonda Brooks

Negotiated cash cattle increased $3.67 per cwt. the week ending Nov. 30 while feedlot margins increased $38 per head to an industry average of $130.42 per head, according to the Sterling Beef Profit Tracker. Meanwhile, beef packers saw losses increase $29 per head to a loss of $91.33 per head. That puts the packer/feeder margin spread at $222 per head in favor of the feeder. Cash cattle averaged $190.03 per cwt. the week ending Nov. 30, while Comprehensive Beef Cutout prices posted a $0.58 per cwt.
Tyson Foods to Close Two More Plants in Pennsylvania

Dec 4, 2024 | drovers.com | Jennifer Shike |Chris Bennett |Mark Johnson |Rhonda Brooks
One Georgia Farmer’s Living Conservation Laboratory

Dec 2, 2024 | drovers.com | Jamie Sears Rawlings |Maggie Malson |Jennifer Shike |Chris Bennett

Josh Davis is not one to rest on his laurels – or in his case, his nearly 700 acres of scenic and productive Georgia farmland. The land his family has stewarded since his great-great-great grandfather won claim to it in the Creek Land Lottery in the 1830’s is still riddled with the hallmarks of a six-generation working farm and former sharecropping community. There is a tin-roofed farmhouse, a long-time shuttered general store with wooden shelves, a blacksmith shop and a cotton storage house.