Friday, October 23, 2026 2:57PM CDT Cattle and calves on feed for the slaughter market in the United States for feedlots with capacity of 1,000 or more head totaled 11.4 million head on Oct. 1, 2026. The inventory was slightly below Oct. 1, 2025, USDA NASS reported on Friday.
Friday, October 23, 2026 2:33PM CDT USDA's new five-state cash cattle report aims to improve price transparency, but analysts say declining negotiated trade and confidentiality restrictions continue to challenge price discovery.
Friday, October 23, 2026 9:51AM CDT Perpetual futures, 24/7 trading and prediction markets take center stage at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) AgCon as the agency looks to stimulate innovation in trading platforms that have long track records of providing price discovery and risk management to agriculture.
Predicted percent deviation from trend based on the regression between 25 years' worth of week 39 ratings and percent deviation figures from the 25-year trend vs. the USDA Sep yiel...
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Farmers are expected to receive $13.4 billion in ARC/PLC payments this month, but they also face fuel and oil expenses that are projected to be at least 29% higher than a year ago....
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Tropical moisture moving into a stalled front, followed closely by a system moving through, will add up to some heavy rainfall totals for parts of the Central U.S.
Council Bluffs, Iowa-based Southwest Iowa Renewable Energy acquired a 70-million-gallon Ord, Nebraska, ethanol plant and is expanding its production capacity to 230 million gallons...
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Traders believed there was a chance that last week's fed cash cattle market could trade steady, if not a tick higher, and that's all the support they needed to boldly push the cont...
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The wet season is starting on time, but mostly due to fronts pressing into central Brazil. El Nino is likely to cause more sparse precipitation this season.
In this equipment roundup, DTN/Progressive Farmer looks at high diesel costs hitting returns; March equipment sales down; reports that Cat buys Monarch technology; Fieldwork Roboti...
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The U.S. has accomplished a lot in 250 years. Perhaps the best way to appreciate those accomplishments is by learning more about what they really are and how they truly came to be.
December corn is down 2 1/2 cents per bushel, November soybeans are down 3/4 cent, December KC wheat is down 2 cents, December Chicago wheat is down 1/2 cent, and MIAX December Minneapolis wheat is up 0.0450 cents.
Beef and pork production are down on lower slaughter numbers in September 2026 than in September 2025. Market will be trading last-minute bias ahead of Friday's Cattle on Feed report.