Counting Counties’ Cows
The USDA National Agricultural Statistics revealed last month that Nebraska’s beef cow herd had declined ...
Tag: Livestock Outlook
Nebraska Cow Inventory Lowest in 60 Years
Nebraska’s beef factory, its beef cow herd, numbered 1.703 million head on January 1, off ...
U.S. Hay Stocks Lowest Since 1973
Derrell Peel, livestock economist at Oklahoma State University, says the latest USDA hay stocks inventory ...
More Cattle Covered Under LRP
Livestock Risk Protection (LRP) has been available to livestock producers for nearly 20 years and ...
HPAI Verses The Egg
Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) has struck poultry producers once again this year. The highly ...
Shifting Market Leverage
Nebraska’s beef cow herd numbered 1.8 million head on January 1, down 3 percent from ...
Impacts of Drought—Cattle . . .
Last week’s USDA crop progress report showed 78 percent of pasture and range acres in ...
To Liquidate or Not
Elliott Dennis, assistant professor and livestock marketing economist at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, says the ...
Nebraska Pork Packs Economic Punch
Sales in Nebraska from hog marketing and pork processing last year packed a total economic ...
Factors in Beef Demand
Consumer expenditures on beef are ultimately what determine the size of the pie of dollars ...
Drought in 2022
The area under drought in Nebraska has waned a bit in recent weeks—shrinking from 97 ...
Long-Term Pressures for Cattle Sector
Cortney Cowley, senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, submits there are ...
Nebraska #1 in Cattle Receipts
Governor Ricketts proclaimed May as “Beef Month” in Nebraska, and rightfully so, as cattle and ...
Culling Cow Herds
Drought conditions in much of the nation, higher feed costs, shortages of forages, and higher ...
Concentration in Beef Markets
Recent hearings before both the U.S. Senate and House Agricultural Committees focused on cattle markets ...
Prospects for the Cattle Sector
Calving is an annual rite of spring in Nebraska as a majority of Nebraska’s cow/calf ...
Price Discovery in Cattle Markets
Fed cattle are typically marketed through one of four types of transactions: negotiated or cash ...
Index Tracks Beef Prices
An index tracking boxed beef prices launched by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) appears to ...
Smaller Beef Factory
Nebraska’s beef factory, its beef cow herd, numbered 1.832 million head on Jan. 1, down ...
Demand for Meat Alternatives Slipping
Nebraska’s cattle, hog, and poultry producers have been anxiously watching the creation and development of ...
Cattle Market Price Discovery and Transparency Act
Price discovery in fed cattle markets has been a concern for cattle producers for several ...
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