ShayLe Stewart

Friday's April 1 USDA Cattle on Feed report isn't expected to ruffle the market's feathers.

The market could decide to change direction, but the support plane of $172 is a critical focal point and worthy to note regardless of which way the market trades.

The cattle futures complex may have fallen, but fundamentally we are still short supply and demand remains strong. It will likely take the futures complex some time to regain its focus, but the facts about those fundamentals...

Fear and turmoil surrounding the HPAI flu could be the market's focus for another day or another month. Whatever the timeline may be, the cattle market will continue to trade five days a week and fear shouldn't be the market's...

One would like to think that the market would take bullish news and run with it. But when you study both the live cattle and feeder cattle market's charts, it's hard to demand that the market do much more when historically...

Friday's March 1 USDA Cattle on Feed report is again highly anticipated by market participants, as there are varying opinions on where exactly February's placements will land.

Given the snowstorms that crippled transportation, weekly sale barn auctions and consequently hindered feeder cattle placements in January, it should be common knowledge there were higher placements in February.

When you look at the feeder cattle market's continuous chart, you'll see the market scored an all-time high at $257.38 on Sept. 15, 2023. The market currently is trading at $249.28, just a mere...

I wish I could come to you early this week and share that packers are going to increase processing speeds to keep up with increasing consumer demand; however, that simply isn't the case.

On one hand, packers will want to keep just enough product available to consumers that prices stay high. On the other hand, if they produce more meat to try to capitalize on strong boxed beef prices, they'll likely have to buy...

With harsh winter weather conditions prohibiting sales across the majority of the nation for a full week in January, it's hard to believe placements were only down 7% in Friday's Cattle on Feed report.

The cattle industry and market will be watching Friday's Feb. 1 USDA Cattle on Feed report to see just how low the placements were in January.

I understand whenever the market begins to trend lower -- as it did earlier this week -- we question ourselves and the bullish outlook. However, sound fundamental outlooks shouldn't be overridden by knee-jerk reactions.

With the beef cow herd dramatically reduced, some feeder cattle buyers have already begun to buy grass calves.

Declining carcass weight is likely the reason packers were willing to buy Kansas-based cattle last week for $4 to $5 more than the previous week's weighted average while they were only willing to advance prices in Texas by $3.

The Cattle Inventory report released Jan. 31 and the cold storms endured through January will both affect the market moving forward and should not be overlooked.

Wednesday afternoon's Cattle Inventory report and the cold storms endured through January will both affect the market moving forward and should not be overlooked.