The United States is the largest beef producer and one of the largest beef exporters in the world. In order to remain competitive, our Nation’s beef producers and everyone else in the supply chain need reliable data to evaluate market conditions, identify trends, make purchasing decisions, and monitor price patterns.
USDA Market News – part of USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service – provides the entire beef industry with equal access to the data they need with just the click of a button. Livestock, Poultry, and Grain Market News Division reporters gather and disseminate beef market information, ranging from feeder cattle to retail beef prices. From farm-to-fork, we have the cattle and beef markets covered.
USDA Market News administers a voluntary reporting program that captures valuable information from many points in the cattle and beef supply chain. Focusing on feeder cattle voluntary reporting, USDA Market News provides volume and weighted average price reporting, capturing prices on thousands of head of cattle. From the Plains of the Midwest, to the grass pastures of the Southeast, feeder cattle weighted average reports are valuable to producers, feedyards, and end users such as the CME index. At many of these same feeder markets, producers can find current slaughter cow and bull prices which facilitate timely livestock sales.
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