Calf and feeder cattle prices remain strong but do seem to have plateaued and are mainly moving sideways, said Andrew Griffith, livestock marketing specialist at University of Tennessee.

Lightweight calves and stockers were more than 50% higher in late February than one year ago, with heavy feeder prices up over 40% year over year. Fed cattle prices are up about 24% year over year.

Feeders pushed cash cattle bids from $245 to $248-249 per hundredweight after packers offered steady prices Friday.

Live and feeder cattle futures were down on Friday and for the week, the first lower weekly closes since June. Brad Kooima, Kooima Kooima Varilek, says the uptrend line on the charts is also starting ...

Record cattle prices and futures strength signal a bullish outlook for 2026.

The number of beef cattle in the U.S. continues to fall, a pair of reports released Friday by the U.S. Department of Agriculture show. "We are not expanding the breeding herd yet, and the implications ...

February live cattle (LEG26) futures hit a four-week high on Tuesday, while January feeder cattle (GFF26) futures saw a modest corrective price pullback after scoring a six-week high last Friday.

From a fifth-generation cattle ranch to a 60-year barbecue institution, inflation is hitting every stop along the way to your plate.

In a July 17, 2025, Barchart article on the cattle futures market, I concluded: The cattle trend remains bullish, no pun intended, as the market is in the heart of the 2025 grilling season. While a ...

Oklahoma and Kansas cattle ranchers are searching for donations of hay to feed cattle after wildfires consumed 300,00 acres.