cattlemen pulled out all the stops to inhale negative margins again.

Cattle feeders appear to have gone backwards today.

I anticipate feeder cattle to sell off sharply and maybe even produce a counter seasonal trade for which prices tend to rise from the first of December to the middle of February.

With only cattlemen so optimistic about cattle prices moving sharply higher, and no one else the same, I think it possible, if not probable, that cattlemen shift from optimism that prices will move higher,...

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.