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The Biggest Loser
Thu Nov 19, 2009 05:20 PM CST
In just four weeks fed steers went from a record average of 870 pounds to 847, from being 13 pounds over the 3-year average to 8 under.
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The Re-Wooing of Japan
Wed Nov 18, 2009 03:14 PM CST
Will they or won't they? Speculation on Japan's relationship with U.S. beef.
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Food Miles
Mon Nov 16, 2009 02:53 PM CST
A new study says locavores may not be accurately assessing the carbon footprint of their hunter/gatherer ways.
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Farm Share Rises From Death Bed
Thu Nov 5, 2009 04:21 PM CST
So here comes a double dose of cold comfort: 1) the late year cash trade would be much more had it not been for some positive shifts in middle margins over the last several months; and 2) the greater confidence that these shifts imply, together with hints of actual demand improvement, suggest that market hogs will trade significantly higher through most of 2010.
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Pass the Tortured Flesh
Tue Nov 3, 2009 05:36 PM CST
Inflammatory rhetoric seldom facilitates the reasoning process and rarely encourages the fair weighing of evidence. Yet when the first opinionated disc-jockey cranks up the volume, the responder has little choice to answer with his own boom box.
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A Likely Feeder Bottom
Mon Nov 2, 2009 05:39 PM CST
Indeed, if the feeder market is generally on course, skewed only by a slightly faster than normal pace, I feel somewhat confident in predicting that a late year bottom is close at hand. It may have already come and gone.
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Those Attractive Birds In The Bush
Thu Oct 29, 2009 04:57 PM CDT
Don't buckle the harness of rationality too tightly around the market horse.
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The Sure Remedy Few Seem To Want
Wed Oct 28, 2009 05:56 PM CDT
When it comes to irradiation, meat processors have been caught between a rock and a hard place for more than a decade.
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Jumping From the Basement
Tue Oct 27, 2009 05:05 PM CDT
Try as you might, it's tough to get hurt jumping out of a basement.
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What's Time to a Pig, or the USDA?
Fri Oct 23, 2009 02:26 PM CDT
USDA seems to put little value on time when it comes to making a decision about whether to buy more pork products.
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Pay Dirt or Fill Sand?
Thu Oct 22, 2009 05:29 PM CDT
Despite serious efforts in backfilling, the long-touted marketing hole in the fall cattle market actually seems to be taking shape.
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The Long Walk From Wall Street to the Sticks
Thu Oct 15, 2009 05:24 PM CDT
If the party on Wall Street over the economic recovery ever stands to find its way to the sticks, meat producers are painfully realistic about the lag time ahead.
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Trapped in the Wrong Stock Market?
Wed Oct 14, 2009 04:18 PM CDT
Anyone who takes the time to compare feedlot investment over the last year with stock equity in major processing companies quickly discovers that it still only hurts when you laugh.
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Waiting for the Other Spinal Column to Drop
Tue Oct 13, 2009 12:56 PM CDT
Packers just can't seem to not make mistakes like shipping some vertebrae to Japan. Luckily the DPJ reacted in a relatively measured way.
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Cautious Optimism in the ICU
Wed Oct 7, 2009 05:55 PM CDT
An impressive two-day rally is no magic pill by itself. Dr. Harrington is not ready to dismiss anyone who's been on life-support this long. Nonetheless, there are several encouraging developments worth charting.
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The Cost of Preventing Tragedy
Tue Oct 6, 2009 04:44 PM CDT
I thought the New York Times discussion of the manufacturing of ground beef was an accurate description of the economically-driven process.
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Dairy Buy-out Not Wearing Well
Mon Oct 5, 2009 04:46 PM CDT
The latest round of dairy cow buy-outs doesn't sit well with beef producers.
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Jack Frost Is Bullish Feeders
Thu Oct 1, 2009 04:15 PM CDT
The feeder cattle market has launched the fourth quarter by shattering chart support and reminding everyone within shouting distance that the seasonal downtrend for calves and yearlings is about as dominant as they come.
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The Winter Farrow Ahead
Tue Sep 29, 2009 03:57 PM CDT
Red ink seasonally increases for hog producers in the last quarter of the year, but cheaper corn prices may entice some to be optimists.
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Marketing Hole History 101
Fri Sep 25, 2009 03:12 PM CDT
If nature hates a vacuum, the cattle market despises a marketing hole.