Cattle Market Notes: Near-Record Kills; Atkins Diet?
by John Anderson, MSU
CattleNetwork.com
I wish someone had some money to help revive those high protein diets! CBB????????? Maybe they will fund a NCBA monitored study to see if this is a good idea?!?!?! :roll:
by John Anderson, MSU
As noted, this week federally inspected cattle slaughter is expected to total 708,000 head. This is the largest weekly federally inspected cattle slaughter since the week ending September 20, 2003. The large supplies of market ready cattle that the market has been anticipating for some time would appear to have arrived.
What this means is that some pretty serious pressure is coming in the wholesale beef market. Where cattle prices go from here depends critically upon how wholesale prices hold up under this pressure. There's not much to do but wait and see. Wouldn't it be nice to be enjoying strong export sales about now? And a revival of the Atkins diet wouldn't hurt anything either. I wonder if anybody still remembers that?
CattleNetwork.com
I wish someone had some money to help revive those high protein diets! CBB????????? Maybe they will fund a NCBA monitored study to see if this is a good idea?!?!?! :roll: