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  2. Beef Prices Could Hit 'Record Levels' This Year ... - AOL

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    Citing data from the USDA, Nelson noted that there were 87.2 million ... the number of cattle and calves heading to market is actually 2% higher right now than it was a year ago. ... "This could ...

  3. Inflation: Grocery prices are back up (slightly), beef prices ...

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    Uncooked beef roasts led that monthly jump with a 6.5% increase from June to July. Beef steaks were up 2.3%, while other cuts of beef and veal were up 3.6%.

  4. Shrinking U.S. cattle herd signals more pain from high beef ...

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    U.S. consumers grappling with soaring inflation face more pain from high beef prices as ranchers are reducing their cattle herds due to drought and lofty feed costs, a decision that will tighten ...

  5. Live cattle - Wikipedia

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    Live cattle is a type of futures contract that can be used to hedge and to speculate on fed cattle prices. Cattle producers, feedlot operators, and merchant exporters can hedge future selling prices for cattle through trading live cattle futures, and such trading is a common part of a producer's price risk management program. [1]

  6. Feeder cattle - Wikipedia

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    Feeder cattle futures prices are a part of the S&P GSCI commodity index, which is a benchmark index widely followed in financial markets by traders and institutional investors. Its weighting in S&P GSCI give feeder cattle futures prices non-trivial influence on returns on a wide range of investment funds and portfolios. [18]

  7. Agricultural policy of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The agricultural policy of the United States is composed primarily of the periodically renewed federal U.S. farm bills.The Farm Bills have a rich history which initially sought to provide income and price support to US farmers and prevent them from adverse global as well as local supply and demand shocks.

  8. Here's the Beef: U.S. Cattle Prices Are Rising With the Economy

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    A long-term drought in U.S. cattle country also disrupted the cycle of raising beef cattle to slaughter weight. The USDA reports that commercial red meat production from January to March was down ...

  9. Cattle cycle - Wikipedia

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    The cattle cycle is the approximately 10-year period in which the number of U.S. beef cattle is alternatively expanded and reduced over several consecutive years in response to perceived changes in profitability by producers. Generally, low prices occur when cattle numbers (or beef supplies) are high, precipitating several years of herd ...