Month: January 2024

A cattle feeder from southwest Minnesota says there several policy issues that will be discussed at the Cattle Industry Convention this week. Mike Landuyt is [Read More]

Chicago Mercantile Exchange live and feeder cattle futures were mostly lower ahead of widespread direct business and the USDA’s semi-annual Cattle Inventory report, which was [Read More]

Soybeans were modestly higher on short covering and technical buying. That late rally was sparked by forecasts showing hot, dry weather into at least next [Read More]

The U.S. sheep and goat inventory was tighter in 2023 and could get tighter in 2024. The USDA says the sheep and goat inventories on [Read More]

Mar. corn closed at $4.48 and 1/4, up 1/2 centMar. soybeans closed at $12.22 and 1/4, up 3 and 1/2 centsMar. soybean meal closed at [Read More]

An ag economist says he expects the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates in the coming months and inflation to decline this year. Officials left [Read More]

Broiler hatchery numbers were narrowly mixed last week. The USDA says sets of 240.59 million broiler type eggs into incubators were up slightly on both [Read More]

The USDA’s indices of prices received and paid by farmers were both down in December. The USDA says the index of prices received was 0.4% [Read More]

There were fewer cattle in the U.S. at the start of 2024 than 2023 and it looks like that contraction will continue. That’s mostly in [Read More]