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The American Lamb Board and the American Sheep Industry Association provide monthly market reports aimed at delivering timely and useful information for American lamb producers. The recently released January report…

Tuesday’s USDA Cattle Inventory report revealed the lowest beef cow inventory in the US in the 50+ year history of the report. Down 4% from last year at 28.9 million…

The popular CattleFax Outlook Seminar, held as part of the 2022 Cattle Industry Convention and NCBA Trade Show in Houston, shared expert market and weather analysis today. Cattle price and…

Recently released USDA projections reveal expectations for U.S. crop prices to decrease over the next 10 years while prices for major animal products, except hogs, are forecast to increase. Expected…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…