Smaller Cattle Herds Help Drive Up Prices
Cattle are rounded up on a ranch in Florida. Expectations of tight supplies are boosting prices.
Bloomberg News
U.S. cattle prices jumped to a record Friday, setting up a fresh hit of sticker shock for consumers at the grocer’s meat counter.
U.S. cattle prices jumped to a record Friday, setting up a fresh hit of sticker shock for consumers at the grocer’s meat counter. Meatpackers this past week paid the highest cash prices on record for live, slaughter-ready cattle in the major producing states of Kansas, Nebraska and Texas. That led traders to bid up futures […]
