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Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins announces plans to reopen Moore Air Base in Texas as a New World screwworm sterile fly distribution facility. Long-term production is anticipated to be 300 million sterile flies per week.
Sid Miller, commissioner of the Texas Department of Agriculture, says the risk of highly pathogenic avian influenza impacting beef cattle in the state’s panhandle – where dairy cows have been infected – is minimal.
Last week’s rally to new record prices pushed packer and feeder margins in opposite directions. Pork producer margins continue higher with prices now above year ago.
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The spread between cattle feeding margins and beef packer margins has now reached $500 per head as packing losses increase. Pork producer margins are the highest of the year.
Cattle feeding margins are rapidly declining as cash cattle prices retreat from spring highs
A $3 per cwt retreat in cash cattle prices pushed cattle feeding margins $67 per head lower.
Cattle feeding margins improved $57 per head last week, due primarily to lower prices paid for incoming feeder cattle against last week’s marketings.
Cattle feeding margins improved $43 per head last week as cash prices gained nearly $2 per cwt.
Cattle feeding margins improved $16 per head last week as cash prices inched higher less than $1 per cwt.
Cattle feeders’ profits last week were $271 per head more than at the same time last year when $114 per head losses were recorded.
Cattle feeding margins jumped nearly $20 per head higher last week to average $216.
Both cattle feeding and packer margins improved last week, even as cash fed cattle prices dipped another $1 per cwt.
Profit margins for cattle feeders rose significantly in the past week.
Cattle feeders’ profits last week were $273 per head more than at the same time last year.
Profit margins for cattle feeders moved higher last week while pork producers saw a dip in profitability.
As America’s cattle market continues to defy historical trends, cattle feeding margins have benefited with solid profits most of the year
Cattle feeders’ profits last week were $367 per head more than at the same time last year when $196 per head losses were recorded.
Cattle feeders saw a significant, unseasonal bump in profit margins last week.
The dog days of summer are nowhere to be found with profits continuing to increase for both cattle and hog producers.
Despite a $17 per head decline, average feedyard margins remained above $300 last week.
Cattle feeding margins declined $70 per head last week, but remain more than $280.
Cattle feeding margins declined $87 per head last week, but remain near $200.
Profitability for both cattle and hog producers has been losing steam for the past month, but things could be a lot worse.
Profits jumped higher on a $4 per cwt. advance in cash prices despite a $6 per head increase in feed costs, according to the Sterling Beef Profit Tracker.
Cattle feeding margins increased $10 per head last week as cash cattle prices improved, according to the Sterling Beef Profit Tracker.