Yesterday, on the drive home from putting on a sell/buy marketing school in Bismarck ND. I was on the phone with sale barn ...

U.S. cattle inventories are at a 75-year low, driven in part by years of severe drought in the western United States that have strained feed supplies.

In Part I, we talked about how the concentration in the marketplace exploded from 1980 to 2021, and how that explosion in concentration resulted in a complete reversal of the allocation of the ...

President Donald Trump said that prices for certain proteins like beef, chicken and eggs have declined. Here's what the data ...

The cost of ground beef has hit a record high as Americans face ever-soaring grocery bills. The dinner table staple jumped in price by around 12 percent from the previous year, shooting up from $5.47 ...

Beef is quietly becoming one of the most expensive staples in your cart. In November, ground beef averaged $6.781 a pound nationwide while steak climbed to $12.285, turning what used to be a routine ...

Chicago Mercantile Exchange live and feeder cattle futures settled lower on Friday as managed money exited their long ...

R-Calf's CEO Bill Bullard says that high beef prices stem less from drought and border issues and more from decades of industry consolidation.

The U.S. cattle herd fell to about 86.2 million head as of Jan. 1, 2026, according to the USDA. That makes it the smallest ...

Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures rose on Thursday as improving packer margins and rising beef prices more than offset concerns about rising crude oil prices and broader economic ...