Figure 1 shows weekly cattle slaughter by federally inspected plants since 2020. From 2020 to 2024, cattle slaughter largely remained between 600,000 and 700,000 head per week, but it has dipped to ...

Packer margins rebound from $350 losses as choice cutout jumps $10.70 while slaughter remains tight despite available capacity nationwide.

USDA’s semi-annual cattle inventory report confirmed the smallest herd in 75 years. This comes as the cattle industry is still healing from consecutive years of drought, but the surprise is that ...

A wave of uncertainty has hit the food supply chain as 3,800 workers at a major meatpacking facility — JBS USA’s Swift Beef Co. plant — officially walked off the job on March 16. Demanding higher ...

Brad Kooima with Kooima Kooima Varilek says there were a couple of reasons the market ignored the strike and the biggest was ...

Thousands of union workers at the JBS Greeley, Colo., plant went on strike Monday calling for higher wages, safer working ...

ATLANTA (AP) – Georgia is the nation’s biggest producer of broiler chickens, but small farmers for years have been pushed to the margins of this lucrative industry because they don’t have access to ...

Live cattle futures were busy rallying to new highs, with contracts up $2.05 to $2.37 at the close. Cash activity thus far has been limited so far this week. The Wednesday Fed Cattle Exchange online ...

Many cattle producers may be locking in strong earnings with 2025-26 shaping as a bumper year for value and exports, but if official predictions are correct the cycle may soon be turning for Australia ...