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Low feed availability and high feed costs have altered the supply of fed cattle and cows to the market since mid-2020. Cattle prices have continued to climb while the grades of cattle have notably declined. Cow slaughter has also increased in response to high feed costs. On the consumer side...

DecisionNext adds competitive competencies in modeling grains and grain derivatives, in some cases significantly outperforming CBOT models. In response to demand from customers in the bakery, retail, foodservice, and distribution sectors, the DecisionNext platform has expanded it’s out-of-the-box modeling capabilities to cover series for various grains and grain derivatives including...

Persistently high inflation and other macroeconomic trends are contributing to financial instability and volatility across global markets. But to what extent can inflation measures and other macroeconomic indicators be used to forecast meat prices? Our team found some problems with including inflation variables in some key forecasting methodology.  Read on...

An ad planning meeting is a stressful environment for a meat director. Choosing witch items to feature, at what price, and then figuring out how to buy the required volume of that item causes many meat buyers to simply fall back on the items they featured the previous year. But...