FEED-LOT Magazine

06/30/2025

After Memorial Day, early June sale prices showed resilient demand for feeder steers, which is likely on the back of plentiful rains in the southern plains, improving grazing conditions. In the first 2 weeks of June, prices had a $15 range for a weighted average price of $306.29 per cwt.

In the second quarter of 2025, packers slowed the slaughter pace of steers and heifers, so much so that federally inspected slaughter declined from April to May. This was the

06/29/2025

Total beef production under Federal inspection for the week ending Saturday, June 28, 2025 was estimated at 483.6 million lbs. from an estimated 560,000 head. That is down 0.4% from last week and down 5.6% from a year ago.
% of total cattle slaughtered by class; Steers -- 49.7% Heifers -- 32.3% Cows -- 16.4%. Bulls -- 1.7%

Source : USDA AMS

06/27/2025

Texas is now the seventh U.S. state to ban lab-grown meat. Last week, Gov. Greg Abbott signed SB261, which will go into effect in September. Texas joins Indiana, Nebraska, Montana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida in enacting a ban.

Consumer Watchdog Expects More Pushback Against Experimental Product

06/27/2025

Source : Mountain Lake Cattle Company

06/27/2025

Feedlots, with capacities of 1,000 or more head, on June 1, 2025 were as follows; Nebraska 2.56 million cattle on feed. Kansas 2.35 million cattle on feed. Texas 2.63 million cattle on feed. Oklahoma 335,000 cattle on feed.


Source : USDA; NASS

06/26/2025

Free gas bloat in pastured cattle is most often due to obstruction of the esophagus (choke) with rapid onset of bloat and death if not addressed quickly. Frothy bloat results when fermentation gases become trapped within a stable foam in the rumen (like the head of a beer) and the animal is no longer able to belch up the gas. Frothy bloat occurs in cattle when grazing forages high in soluble protein and low in fiber.

Ruminant animals produce large volumes of gas through the normal fermentation process during forage digestion. This gas is predominantly belched up (eructated) as it passes through the gastrointestinal tract. If

06/26/2025

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Ingredients

06/25/2025

When cattle eat protein-rich feeds, certain protein types are utilized by the microbes first. If the microbes use up all the protein, the animal may not get enough later when it digests food in the intestine, resulting in a protein deficiency for the animal. That’s why understanding the difference between ‘microbial protein’—produced by rumen microbes—and ‘by-pass protein’—which passes through the rumen and is utilized by the animal directly—is crucial when balancing rations.

Although drought conditions are a normal part of the weather cycle, cattle producers face serious challenges when regular feed supplies run low. When familiar feed resources begin to disappear, how

06/25/2025

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No big surprises in the Cattle on Feed, but how long will inventories last? "The feedlot is like a water tank with placements as the inflow and marketings as the outflow. Slower inflow is more than offset by slower outflow and helps keep the inventory of the feedlots temporarily higher than the flows would indicate...." Read more from Dr. Peel and others in this week's FEED-LOT eNews.

Email from Feed-Lot Magazine Inc June 25, 2025 A weekly newsletter featuring industry news FEEDLOT & INDUSTRY NEWS Keeping the Tank Full, For Now The latest USDA Cattle on Feed report highlights the i

06/24/2025

The futures market already forms expectations about the overall price level, so we focus on forecasting the difference between the local cash price and the futures price. That difference is called basis and the formula for calculating it is: Basis = Cash Price – Futures Price and can be positive or negative.

When we reach each either extreme of the cattle cycle, it changes how we interpret and forecast price relationships. One challenge is understanding relative prices for cattle in different weight

06/24/2025

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Source : Get Ranchy

06/23/2025

Cattle drink more water in hot weather as ev***ration of water v***r from the lungs is the primary method used to cool themselves. Water intake is a moderately heritable trait in cattle, but the use of this trait and the direction of genetic selection that could most benefit the industry is inconclusive.

Water use around feedlot cattle production is an important topic of discussion in sustainability circles. Most of the U.S. feedlot cattle production is in semi-arid climates where water resources are