With beef cow slaughter down 20% and cull bulls breaking the $200/cwt. barrier, record-heavy steer weights are fueling a ...

Live cattle futures are trading with $1.80 to $1.90 gains at midday. Cash trade has been mostly $372 dressed as well as a few live sales of $235-236. The Thursday morning Fed Cattle Exchange online ...

For 2026 alone, 3,900 more cows have been culled each week on average compared to a year ago, resulting in year-to-date slaughter being 35,000 head or 7.5% higher than the year prior.

Even though dairy cattle were at the smallest price point sold at both feeder- and slaughter-cattle auctions, they were also the heaviest largely due to having bigger skeletal frames. Dairy-feeder ...