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By Jeff Wilson and Tony C. Dreibus, Bloomberg |
September 11, 2012
The smallest U.S. soybean harvest in nine years will leave inventories in the world’s largest exporting nation at the lowest in four decades.
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By Whitney McFerron, Tony C. Dreibus and Elizabeth Campbell, Bloomberg |
August 23, 2012
The worst U.S. drought in a half century and record feed prices are spurring farmers to shrink cattle herds to the smallest in two generations, driving beef prices higher.
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By Rich Nelson |
August 23, 2012
Theoretically, the market that will show the first reaction to high corn prices will be chicken. It has the shortest turnaround between a change in profitability and a change in actual production.
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By Alan Bjerga, Bloomberg |
August 10, 2012
The grass in Melvin Korte’s 280 acres of pasture in northern Missouri is dead, burnt away in the worst drought in the Corn Belt in more than a half-century. Now he’s doing all he can to keep his herd of 63 cattle alive.
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By Rich Nelson |
August 9, 2012
Meat markets generally follow a predictable flow in pricing throughout the year. We hold a negative bias on this market because of expectations of rising supply.
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By Elizabeth Campbell, Bloomberg |
June 12, 2012
The U.S. cattle herd has shrunk to the smallest since three years before Ray Kroc opened his first McDonald’s Corp. hamburger stand, reducing supply and raising prices even as domestic demand sinks to a two-decade low.
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By Elizabeth Campbell, Bloomberg |
May 22, 2012
Pork stockpiles in the U.S. rose 20 percent at the end of April from a year earlier as production increased, the government said.
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By Elizabeth Campbell, Bloomberg |
May 18, 2012
Feedlots slashed purchases of young cattle by 15 percent in April as the number available for sale shrank, and improved pasture conditions allowed animals to stay on grazing areas.
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By Elizabeth Campbell, Bloomberg |
May 1, 2012
The heaviest and most numerous U.S. pig population on record and rebounding Chinese output are creating a surplus that is poised to halt a four-year rally in prices.
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By Elizabeth Campbell, Bloomberg |
March 13, 2012
Record dairy profits and milder weather are leading to a surge in milk supplies from Auckland to California, turning last year’s best-performing commodity contract into one of the worst of 2012.
