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Grain Markets To Remain Volatile

Can cattlemen expect some relief in the grain market in 2012? Eventually. Maybe. That’s the assessment of Mike Murphy with CattleFax. Grains, like beef, trade in a global market and that trade has been dominated by a historically low stocks-to-use ratio.

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  • Dec. 27, 2011
    Article

    Corn Prices Continue Lower

    "Corn prices received by producers have been reported 40¢-50¢/bu. below prevailing cash market bids reflecting apparent deliveries of grain that was forward-priced below $6/bu. ahead of planting this past spring," say analysts in the December World Agriculture Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE)....More
  • Nov. 29, 2011
    article

    Corn Stocks Estimated Higher

    Despite recent weakness in corn markets, tied mainly to negative outside markets, there's little reason to expect a major price retreat. Demand is too high....More
  • Oct. 14, 2011
    article

    Corn Prices To Remain High Into Early 2012

    Figuring out why corn futures prices dipped $2/bu. over the past two months may be one of those questions that only time will answer, says Bill Tierney, chief economist at AgResource Company in Chicago....More
  • Sep. 2, 2011
    article

    He's Bullish On Cattle – And Corn

    April 2012 live-cattle futures “shouldn’t fall below $121/cwt. and cash cattle could see $130-$135 and even run up to $140 by May,” says an extremely bullish Dan Basse, Chicago-based agricultural price analyst and consultant....More
  • Apr. 19, 2011
    article

    Hay Prices May Spike, Even If Cattle Futures Dip

    Hold on to your hay....More
  • Mar. 24, 2011
    article

    Can The U.S. Feed China?

    “For Americans, who live in a country that’s been the world’s breadbasket for more than half a century, a country that’s never known food shortages or runaway food prices, the world is about to change.”...More
  • Jan. 25, 2011
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    Corn Continues Upward March

    Anyone hoping for relief from corn prices received no encouragement from recent developments. The 2010-11 market year average farm price for corn was raised 10¢ on both ends of the range ($4.90-$5.70/bu.) in the monthly World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates released Jan. 12....More
  • Sep. 1, 2009
    article

    Sky Bandits

    Eating like a bird is a metaphor used to describe someone who eats only small amounts of food or pecks at his vittles. Get enough of these bird-size appetites...More
  • Sep. 12, 2008
    article

    Ethanol-Subsidy Cuts Needed, Says USDA Secretary

    Does the ethanol industry rely too heavily on government subsidies?...More
  • Sep. 1, 2008
    article

    Cows & Distillers

    With prices for feed, fuel and pasture driving up cow costs and drought seemingly always just around the corner ranchers are looking for ways to sharpen...More
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