Shayle Shagam

The cattle herd nationwide, continues to contract, and USDA livestock analyst Shayle Shagam expects that trend to continue throughout the year. "We are looking at expectations of a continued decline of probably 1-2% in the cattle inventory during 2022 ...

2021 was a record year for U.S. meat and poultry production. So, what's the expectation when it comes to production in 2022? "We expect total meat production to be down, just fractionally at .2%, 106.6 billion pounds.  This should be the first decline since 2014." ...

In the 33 lines of summary in the USDA's early look at cattle numbers, the words "Down," or "Below" were used 17 times. The national numbers turned out lower than most industry annalists expected. Top of the summary, the inventory of all cattle and calf's in the U ...

There were a lot of cattle in feedlots the New Year started. USDA reporting that on January 1st inventory was 12 million head, that will be up 1% from January 2021. "...and would be the second highest inventory number for the month since the survey began in 1996," noted USDA livestock analyst, Shayle Shagam ...

When it comes to the U.S. turkey sector, "About the last four years, we've seen production falling; being reflected in tighter supply of turkeys and lower stocks," Much lower stocks according to USDA livestock analyst Shayle Shagam. He said a few years ago turkey producers were reporting low prices as their production was growing faster than demand ...

The nation's beef cattle herd may be shrinking at a faster pace than some had expected. It may not be definitive at all through Friday's new USDA report of cattle feed lot numbers. "The signals continue to point towards smaller cow numbers ...

Many in the beef cattle industry think the national herd is in the middle of a reduction, which will last this year and next. "We're expecting inventory numbers to be coming down. We're about a 2% decline in 2021, and about 1% in 2022," noted Katelyn McCullock with the Livestock Marketing Information Center ...

Going in to Friday's USDA cattle feedlot activity report, industry analysts expected a 1% decline in placements during August. However, what they got was a placement number of 2.1 million head which was up 2% from a year ago. USDA Livestock Analyst, Shayle Shagam, says looking at the geography, placements were down in places in Oklahoma where forage as been available. ...

USDA Livestock analyst Shayle Shagam recently looked at last week's cattle inventory and feed report. What does he think? "What we are looking at is definite signs that there's a liquidation." Shagam said most numbers in the reports were lower year over year, but roughly 1% to 2% ...

Last week's USDA cattle on feed report puts May placements of cattle in feed lots down 7% from last year. Marketing of fed cattle is up 25% from last year's COVID situation. Total feed lot inventory June first, 11.7 million head, almost exactly what it was this time a year ago. ... Read More ...