University of Tennessee Ag Economist Andrew Griffith said beef cutout prices have struggled recently, and pork values have as well.
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- Crystal Reed
The grain market is searching for harvest lows, said Don Roose at U.S. Commodities.
- Benjamin Herrold
Analysts expected an increase in feedlot inventory in the latest USDA report, but instead inventory was down. The Livestock Marketing Information Center said the inventory decline was nearly half a percent.
- Crystal Reed
World leadership changes and the U.S. midterm election are affecting commodity markets.
- Crystal Reed
At harvest time the grain market is trying to find fair market value and the end user is looking for where to put harvest lows, said Don Roose at U.S. Commodities.
- Benjamin Herrold
Cattle producers continue to try to navigate volatile markets. University of Tennessee Ag Economist Andrew Griffith said some sectors of the overall cattle market have moved against seasonal trends, and some have followed the trends.
- Benjamin Herrold
The cattle industry continues to watch for signs of herd expansion and increasing the beef supply.
- Crystal Reed
Grain markets reacted to hope for China trade, an interest rate hike and more rain across the Corn Belt this past week.
- Crystal Reed
The USDA released the September WASDE report Sept. 11 and updated the old-crop balance sheet to reflect completion of the 2025-26 marketing year Aug. 31.
- Benjamin Herrold
Early September saw somewhat reduced cattle sales, in part due to the Labor Day holiday and in part due to the lower cattle market, University of Tennessee Livestock Marketing Specialist Andrew Griffith said.
- Crystal Reed
Don Roose at U.S. Commodities said the grains are still trying to decide if they are in a seasonal or contraseasonal market.
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Fewer cattle are moving as producers hold onto stock in the hope of prices improving, Andrew Griffith, livestock marketing specialist with the University of Tennessee, wrote in his Market Highlights column for Aug. 28.
- Benjamin Herrold
The cattle industry has had some eventful weeks, and Kansas State University ag economist Glynn Tonsor said there are a few things to look at to make sense of the volatile cattle markets.
- Crystal Reed
Don Roose at U.S. Commodities called the grain market is a “hypothetical positive bull market to a realizing bull market” with the approaching harvest having an impact.
- Benjamin Herrold
Trade data for the first half of the year show the trends in meat imports and exports. The Livestock Marketing Information Center said the numbers show beef imports up while exports are down.
- Tim Kenyon
Grain markets are heating up, analyst Austin Schroeder of The Price Futures Group said Aug. 24.
- Benjamin Herrold
Lower finished cattle prices and the overall cattle market have reflected the mindset of market participants, said University of Tennessee Ag Economist Andrew Griffith.
- Crystal Reed
Several factors are adding risk premium to the grain market, said Don Roose at U.S. Commodities.
- Crystal Reed
The next WASDE report was released Aug. 12, and with that may come a bottoming out of the corn market. The August report is the first of the year to use farmer survey-based estimates for the size and condition of U.S. crops.