Cattle industry continues to look for signs of herd expansion

A livestock economist says he doesn’t expect many surprises in Friday’s Cattle on Feed report.   Josh Maples with Mississippi State University Extension says he anticipates a significant drop in marketings. “You look at steer and heifer slaughter in April, it was down 9.8% from where we were last April, looking at the daily slaughter data,” he says.  “So big drop there. April […]

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Cash dairy prices mostly lower Friday

Cash dairy prices were mostly lower except for butter on Friday at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.     Dry whey was unchanged at $0.67.  Two sales were recorded at $0.67 and $0.6725.  Forty-pound cheese blocks were down $0.0075 at $1.4725.  Three sales were recorded,