beef prices

Part of President Biden's recent Executive Order, addressing competition in the marketplace, "we will follow through on the President's directive and begin the process of rule-making on the Packers and Stockyards Act," noted Agriculture Sectary, Tom Vilsack ...

R-CALF recently submitted comments to the USDA that identified two factors as, what the organization called the core structural problems causing the current crisis in the U.S. cattle industry. R-CALF CEO Bill Bullard said the first factor, concentration in the beef packing sector, created the second problem ...

As lawmakers and the Ag industry look to determine how to ensure beef producers and the packing houses both receive fair pay, and have a good working relationship, one University of Idaho assistant professor said it all starts with communication ...

World Agricultural Outlook Board Chair Mark Jekanowski  on the main take away from June's Meat Production and Price forecast. "Our steer price forecast we raised our 2021 steer price forecast by 75 cents CWT just reflecting current price strength that we've been seeing in the market. But ...

A bipartisan effort is underway in Washington D.C. to manage what some have called a food crisis when it comes to the prices livestock producers receive. R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard said consumers are paying rapidly higher prices at the store, but cattle prices are collapsing ...

World Board Outlook Chair, Mark Jekanowski, said there were pretty small changes in USDA's beef production forecast. "What we're seeing there is an increased slaughter forecast for the second half of the year being largely offset by lighter carcass weights ...

It's been ten years since Washington's beef community began Beef Counts, the beef community’s effort to help fight hunger across the Pacific Northwest. Branden Spencer, a 4th-generation farmers in the Ritzville area said it's important that Washingtonians see that those who work in the beef supply chain want to help their neighbors in their time of need. ...

The USDA anticipates when we close the books on 2020, food shoppers will see a year-over-year grocery price increase between 2.5%-3.5%. But, when it comes to the 2021, USDA anticipates some wild swings, and unpredictability. Why? USDA Economist, Carolyn Chelius blames the supply chain disruptions this year ...

Beef supply numbers are rising to levels we have not seen for several months. After April and early May's meat processing plant closures and slowdowns things began to turn around, "We began to see more and more plants coming online, we began to see more resilient speeds ...

Most private cattle trade analysts expected the USDA's most recent cattle on feed report to show November cattle placements in feedlots to be only about 1% higher year over year.  What they got was a placement number 5% higher than a year ago just under 2.1 million...