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Cattle Markets 2025: To Retain or Not to Retain - drovers.com
15 hours ago · Average Oklahoma steer calf prices increased more than 61% from 2022 to 2024, leading to a sharp increase in average cow-calf returns (Figure 1). Cow-calf returns vary significantly across producers due to widely variable costs of production, but the message is clear — increasingly strong market ...
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Dec 26, 2024 · The Corporate Transparency Act filing requirements are back in effect following a court decision that reverses the injunction that previously halted this mandate.
News - Drovers
5 days ago · The Senate kicked off quietly as the House steals the spotlight to start 2025. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) plans to pass individual appropriations bills and a farm bill as well as focus on regular order and extended floor debates.
Markets - Drovers
Dec 30, 2024 · Cash cattle averaged $194.99 per cwt. while lean carcass hog prices were at $80.35 per cwt.
Cattle and Beef Markets: 2024 in Review - drovers.com
Dec 30, 2024 · Looking back, 2024 was mostly a continuation of the story that has been developing since 2022. Tight supplies of cattle pushed cattle and beef prices higher to new record levels during the year. However, in some ways, 2024 was kind of a pause in the developing dynamics of the industry with more of a ...
State of the Beef Industry - Drovers
Oct 4, 2024 · While U.S. beef cow inventories stabilize in 2024, the industry could experience a longer transition period as unprecedented risk mutes profit signals that normally kick-start herd rebuilding efforts.
Livestock Markets - Drovers
Nov 6, 2024 · Last week’s harvest averaged 100,000 with except of Veteran’s Day holiday. Feeder cattle demand elevated after widespread precipitation throughout much of the winter wheat grazing region.
BEEF - Drovers
Dec 10, 2024 · The end of the strike is terrific news for U.S. livestock producers and exporters who ship more than $100 million of U.S. pork and beef through those ports each week, says U.S. Meat Export Federation president and CEO Dan Halstrom.
Cattle Market Reports and Analysis - Drovers
Sep 26, 2024 · Harvested fed steer and heifer head counts outpaced the same weeks in 2023, with 501K and 492K in the past two weeks.