The CME Group has begun publishing a new Boxed Beef Index. The new pricing tool is designed to provide the beef industry with better price discovery by focusing on the…
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AFBF’S Market Intel series has examined the impact that COVID-19 has had on livestock, beef and pork markets over the course of the pandemic. Food production was significantly disrupted, especially at livestock processing facilities, where labor shortages…
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U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service released their agricultural prices received for September showing hay prices in Wyoming and Montana are up for the state but mixed for…
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Cattle and beef markets have decreased from April highs with uncertainty in a variety of factors weighing on markets the past month. The latest threat of additional tariffs on Mexico rattled…
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Ronald A. Wirtz, Director-Regional Outreach, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis There’s an old truism (among many) about farmers: Farmers have to be optimists, or they wouldn’t still be farmers. That…
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In just the last 3 years both cattle and wheat prices have declined by over 30{b9074abe8f97d35d556dcc91d04f630e2f89dbb1fa8fca20af3e4b7ae12c3e5a}. The profitability in agriculture has dipped sharply after cattle producers saw peak prices just…