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| Livestock Planning Prices -- B1-10 | | |
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| Deductible Livestock Costs for Adjusting Income Tax Returns -- B1-15 |
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| Historical Hog and Lamb Prices -- B2-10 |
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| Historical Cattle Prices -- B2-12 |
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| Seasonal Hog Price Patterns -- B2-14 |
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| Change in Hog Prices by Two-week Period -- B2-15 |
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| Seasonal Cattle Price Patterns -- B2-19 |
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| Change in Cattle Prices by Two-week Period -- B2-20 |
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| Suggested Closing Inventory Prices -- C1-40 |
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| Newsletter Articles |
| Iowa’s notable impact in world agricultural trade -- November 2023 |
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| Pork industry structural changes possible -- October 2023 |
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| Beef cow herd keeps shrinking cyclically -- August 2023 |
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| Hogs and Pigs Report advanced statistics -- July 2023 |
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| Watching "smart money" commodity trading could pay -- June 2023 |
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| Profits entice cattle producers to expand to capture more profits -- May 2023 |
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| Outside forces cloud investment decision making for pork producers -- April 2023 |
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| There’s a new library in town -- March 2023 |
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| Beef cow herd to shrink for years to come -- February 2023 |
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| Will swine breeding herd increases continue? -- January 2023 |
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| Position in cattle cycle impacts replacement prices -- December 2022 |
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| Incentives matter for conservation practice adoption -- November 2022 |
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| Big inventory swings in some hog states -- October 2022 |
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| Disentangling input and output price relationships -- September 2022 |
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| Strong beef demand boosts cull bull market -- August 2022 |
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| Hog producers rationally responding to market
signals -- July 2022 |
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| Many factors could support, derail cattle
inventory trends -- June 2022 |
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| Detailing the supply curve for beef -- May 2022 |
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| Hogs and pigs inventory contraction continues -- April 2022 |
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| Consumers respond to meat price differences -- April 2022 |
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| Some quirks but typical beef market trends expected -- March 2022 |
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| Iowa’s beef cow herd is off and running -- February 2022 |
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| Sorting out hog production shocks -- January 2022 |
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| Strong by-product values lift cattle prices -- December 2021 |
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| How long will strong beef demand continue? -- November 2021 |
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| Can dairy beef prices foretell future price trends -- October 2021 |
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| Making sense of recent changes in hog inventories -- October 2021 |
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| Avoid misinterpreting year-to-year cattle inventory changes -- August 2021 |
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| Producers freshen the swine breeding herd -- July 2021 |
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| Recapping 2020 through the cattle industry lens -- May 2021 |
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| Push-n-pull supporting hog prices -- April 2021 |
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| Ground beef demand remains strong -- March 2021 |
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| No clear signals on beef cattle herd expansion -- February 2021 |
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| Talk of hog supply contraction is premature -- January 2021 |
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| Understanding stats in USDA hogs and pigs reports -- October 2020 |
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| Buy local meat business grows -- September 2020 |
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| Little change in mid-year cattle inventory -- August 2020 |
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| What’s included and excluded in USDA hog numbers? -- July 2020 |
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| Rising cattle supplies face restricted packing capacity -- June 2020 |
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| Strive to market fed cattle at optimum weight – even in tough times -- May 2020 |
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| Hog producers limited in short-run to change production -- April 2020 |
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| Beef producers work to overcome 2019 challenges -- February 2020 |
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| Economics spur expansion and help guide where hogs are produced -- January 2020 |
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