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In this edition we want to update you on the development of a possible important low for live cattle and feeder cattle futures. If we are right with our analysis of futures markets, cash markets could also form bottoming formations in some areas of Canada and the US. We concentrate today’s analysis on the charts.

Today let’s look at the latest data on U.S. beef in cold storage and placements into feedlots. What’s it telling us about the process of herd expansion, and how well the market is coping with increased supplies? In some ways, the latest USDA cattle report released July 22 was a letdown. It was a regular

This week let’s look back over the past six months, reviewing what was said in these columns and offering an update. Jan. 11, 2016: What was said: The long-term cattle price cycle points down. A long-term 10-12-year cycle peak for prices and profits occurred about a year ago. The next low for the cycle is

The word ‘potential’ may be overused, but American cattle producers no doubt see plenty of it in the China market. That’s because the Asian giant – which is already the largest buyer of U.S. soybeans and a major purchaser of American pork – remains in the midst of significant downswing in domestic cattle numbers and

By John DePutter & Dave Milne, DePutter Publishing Inc. Market prices have plenty to say about when ranchers expand their cattle herds but so too does Mother Nature. And over the past couple of years, Mother Nature has given the go-ahead; supplying the southern U.S. Plains with enough moisture to bolster the pastures that are