McDonalds, Kroger's, and others have mentioned through the year the shifting of consumer demand and changes in willingness to pay.  So, with great optimism for cattlemen, but not so much for beef, I anticipate...

Cattle feeders continue to inhale negative margins.  Futures traders are gracious in now providing a negative basis, but not gracious enough to reduce the negative margins.

Cattle feeders are finding themselves battling increasing negative margins again.

An eventful day of higher trading that pretty much closed the basis spread shut.

I recommend selling soybeans and corn.  This is a sales solicitation.  I continue to read from multiple sources, and hear from many more, that state there is an abundance of grains and oilseeds to be...

The basis is believed wide enough that futures traders may need further reason to sell futures out from underneath the cash market.

There is little to interject that hasn't been done so to extremes today

In my opinion, normality is beginning to return to the cattle industry.

Packers have regained margin with cattle feeders marketing bison sized carcasses.

The vacancies left in the south from the southern border closure were filled in the north, in belief the north felt they may have obtained a stranglehold.