December 2017

By John DePutter & Dave Milne, DePutter Publishing Ltd. Around this time a year ago, we predicted better times ahead for cattle producers in 2017 – especially in the wake of the painful declines through 2015 and most of 2016. And as the table here shows, cattle prices are indeed finishing up the year higher […]

Previous reports have noted a growing body of evidence that would seem to suggest that American cattle producers are beginning to slow the pace of herd expansion – even if they haven’t yet actually started to cut back. All of which begs the question: When might producers fully switch from herd expansion to contraction? After