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How consumer spending drives fed cattle prices

Cattle producers are bombarded with charts and data from cattle inventory reports and cattle on feed surveys.

During the fall of 2023, live cattle futures and were trending lower. Every analyst I was reading was focused on how low supplies were from a historical perspective; however, fed cattle prices were on a downward spiral. It’s important to realize there is another side of the fundamental equation: it’s called demand.

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