
How can it be that we have record on feed numbers and a $10 price spread between regions when there's supposed to be record on feed numbers?
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ShayLe Stewart is the newest member of the DTN analysis team (September 2019), and comes with deep roots in the beef industry.
Based in the high mountain cattle country near Cody, Wyoming, Stewart leads coverage in all areas of livestock and meat production, and brings a true boots-on-the-ground perspective to a livestock marketing world that gets increasingly difficult to navigate.
ShayLe grew up on a cow-calf and haying operation in south-central Montana, where her passion for the beef industry led her to Colorado State University, ultimately to an internship with the United States Cattlemen's Association. Her experiences following markets for USCA were the springboard for her self-produced Cattle Market News website and Facebook outlets. Those weekly reports were a reliable source of compressed, easy-to-understand, digestible market information.
While her background is in the ranching West, ShayLe comes with a solid list of market contacts from around the country. Talking each week to sale barn owners, feed lot managers, and other industry experts, she is able to ask the questions that cattlemen need answered in order to find clarity in a complex and dynamic market.
ShayLe and her husband, Jimmy, run a registered herd of Sim-Angus females, and host an annual bull sale in Powell, Wyoming.
How can it be that we have record on feed numbers and a $10 price spread between regions when there's supposed to be record on feed numbers?
How can it be that we have record on feed numbers and a $10 price spread between regions when there's supposed to be record on feed numbers?
The cattle market waits for no one. If you see an opportunity coming, you've got to position yourself strategically to make the most of it because it may not come around again for another eight to 10 years.
While inflation runs untamed and interest rates are bound to keep rising, cattlemen hope buyers will remain active participants in this week's market as they understand that there will be fewer calves and feeder cattle available...
Given how thinly traded the cash cattle market is, packers play on market starters to set the week's tone and secure the prices that they want to pay for cattle for the week.
The pendulum is about to swing and favor sellers' positions. With 1,573,100 head of beef cows processed already this year, you can guarantee that the market is going to feel the shock of fewer feeders come this fall.
Here are some of the bullish and bearish factors influencing the feeder cattle market that should be looked at to keep you engaged in what is happening now and in the future.
Packers know that the market favors their position for now, but when the cattle that are currently fed get worked through, the cash market is going to drastically change to favor...
If someone told you that they had 52 opportunities throughout the year to make money, and they only used four to eight of those opportunities (four to eight weeks out of the year), wouldn't you wonder why? The same goes for...
Three consecutive weeks where the cash cattle market sees more than 100,000 head traded each week is nearly unheard of in today's market. (DTN ProphetX chart by ShayLe Stewart)
DTN Livestock Analyst ShayLe Stewart says if the cash cattle market is allowed to wither away, the market will conduct business behind closed doors where corporate feedlots and the nation's four largest packers walk away with...
Whether it's drought, cash flow insufficiencies, or the squeeze from higher fuel prices -- or last week's blizzard -- know that you are the men and women who will create good times once again. A Montana rancher shared what it was...
Whether it's drought, cash flow insufficiencies, the squeeze from higher fuel prices -- or this week's blizzard -- know that you are the men and women who will create good times once again.
If this storm does indeed produce the moisture it's expected to, the cattle market could see a strong uptick in feeder cattle prices as there are limited supplies of feeder cattle left and green grass should come when the...
Thinking the grass is greener on the other side is a dangerous mindset; the longer you spend time with those type of thoughts, the more obsessed with greener grass you become.