Different generations of farmers and ranchers have different ways of doing things. But instead of letting those differences be polarizing, the industry would be better off to lean into rich...
ShayLe Stewart
DTN Livestock Analyst
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.
Recent Blogs by Author
-
-
With feedlots able to keep cash cattle prices steady to $1 up last week, there's a strong chance that prices trade higher again this week as packers need to procure cattle to avoid becoming...
More From This Author
-
Call the Market
The problem that the market faces now is determining what influence will the market's weakened technical state have on its overall being. Unfortunately, I'm pressed to believe that, despite the market's strong fundamental position...
-
Sort and Cull
With feedlots able to keep cash cattle prices steady to $1 up last week, there's a strong chance that prices trade higher again this week as packers need to procure cattle to avoid becoming short bought.
-
Call the Market
When times are tough, cattlemen have a rotten tendency to stop looking at their cattle like assets and start looking at them like liabilities.
-
Call the Market
The reason why it's so important that the market, especially feedlots looking to market fat cattle in the weeks/months ahead, absorb the most recent grading information is because this highlights that front-end supplies of...
-
Sort and Cull
A pause in the market's upward trend doesn't mean that higher prices aren't in the market's future, even though it can be jarring emotionally to see prices wane.
-
Call the Market
From not accepting a $0.30 price slide on heifers, to trucking cattle in more aggressive marketing environments, cattlemen need to evaluate their marketing strategies and determine if higher prices can be seized.
-
Sort and Cull
Instead of gasping and reacting to findings cattlemen already knew, they'd be better off to focus on the hard data of today, which continues to prop up and propel the market higher.
-
USDA Cattle on Feed Report Preview
Friday's USDA Aug. 1 Cattle on Feed Report will focus on placements.
-
Call the Market
If feed isn't an issue and drought conditions aren't breathing down your neck, remember your cattle are always an asset.
-
Sort and Cull
The fact that open interest sits at a six-year low means there's too much uncertainty on both the upside and downside to attract traders. It also indicates the price is too low for commercials to hedge and too high to attract...
-
USDA Cattle Reports Preview
Friday's USDA July 1 Cattle on Feed and Cattle Inventory reports will be highly sought-after material by cattlemen and traders alike and will likely influence the market heading into August.
-
Call the Market
There is product out there that is just as consumable and just as good as Certified Angus Beef, but that product doesn't have the same marketing structure behind it.
-
Sort and Cull
During the last month, the feeder cattle market has rallied and grabbed everyone's attention as sales have been substantially higher than a year ago. With Friday unveiling the midyear's Cattle Inventory report, prices could shoot...
-
Call the Market
As our attention now shifts to the third and fourth quarters of the year and knowing that 2022 has proven to us that seasonality again doesn't matter this year, we are left to wonder: What could be in store for the remaining...