Cattle market risk and reward

A crop and livestock producer from northwest Iowa sees risk and opportunity in the cattle market. Jolene Riessen grows corn, soybeans, alfalfa, and runs a custom feedlot near Ida Grove.  She tells Brownfield a local sale barn recently sold 700-pound feeders for nearly $400/cwt and that’s not sustainable for most producers. “It would take a […]

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