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US beef exports to China were at their largest volumes since March 2025 the week ending September 4th, 2026. Total volum...
09/17/2026

US beef exports to China were at their largest volumes since March 2025 the week ending September 4th, 2026. Total volumes were shown at 1,513 MT. Do the restrictive tariff rates for Australia and now Brazil into China open the door for US exporters?

As of September 1, 2026 the Managed Money category, in the Corn market, had the largest net long position in the history...
09/09/2026

As of September 1, 2026 the Managed Money category, in the Corn market, had the largest net long position in the history of the COT report...

while they were buying feeder cattle!

YTD video sales are still trailing, with heifers down 66,153 head and steers down 41,843 head from 2025. However, August...
08/31/2026

YTD video sales are still trailing, with heifers down 66,153 head and steers down 41,843 head from 2025. However, August sales rebounded strongly, reaching 282,936 head and surpassing 2024 levels.

The National Beef Featuring Rate at retail spiked at 96.0%. Will heightened beef featuring continue headed into the Labo...
08/20/2026

The National Beef Featuring Rate at retail spiked at 96.0%. Will heightened beef featuring continue headed into the Labor Day holiday?

The US continues to pull from a variety of sources to meet it's beef demand needs. Beef imports from Argentina notched n...
08/17/2026

The US continues to pull from a variety of sources to meet it's beef demand needs. Beef imports from Argentina notched new highs for 2026 the week ending August 8th at 3,467 MT. Year-to-date Argentine imports are up 152.5% compared to 2025.

Western Video’s Little America sale on August 10-11 moved a total of 45,748 head, including 21,815 cattle weighing 400-7...
08/15/2026

Western Video’s Little America sale on August 10-11 moved a total of 45,748 head, including 21,815 cattle weighing 400-700 lbs. and 21,041 head in the 800-1000 lb. range. October delivery accounted for the heaviest volume, with 8,304 steers and 3,632 heifers in the lighter weight range. Steer-heifer spreads were tightest in October at $13.29 and the widest in September at $48.28, with solid secondary volume also seen in the Oct-Nov and November delivery period.

July video auction heifer sales declined 26.6% year-over-year, roughly 70,848 head, indicating that limited heifer place...
08/13/2026

July video auction heifer sales declined 26.6% year-over-year, roughly 70,848 head, indicating that limited heifer placements will continue.

Beef export sales to South Korea the week of July 30th were 96.5% or 4,741 MT higher than the week before. They finished...
08/08/2026

Beef export sales to South Korea the week of July 30th were 96.5% or 4,741 MT higher than the week before. They finished at 9,317 MT--the third largest volume of 2026. This increase came just a week after Australia reportedly hit their safe-guard quota limits into South Korea, which opened the door for US exporters.

Prime grading is cooling off... but its still running hot.National Prime grading slipped to 13.11% this week (down 1.1%)...
08/07/2026

Prime grading is cooling off... but its still running hot.
National Prime grading slipped to 13.11% this week (down 1.1%) but remains 2.5% above last year and 3.6% above the five-year average.

Packers saw the level aged load counts traded in 189A Tenderloins grow substantially last week. Moving some of this prod...
08/03/2026

Packers saw the level aged load counts traded in 189A Tenderloins grow substantially last week. Moving some of this product now could allow for the seasonal run up in prices as packers get more "cleaned up" and fall retail planning gets under way.

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