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Cattle Current Market Update with Wes Ishmael

Wes Ishmael: cattle business analyst and journalist

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Cattle Current Podcast—May 6, 2026

Cattle Current Market Update with Wes Ishmael ·

2026/05/05

Cattle futures were higher Tuesday on fundamental strength and more bullish outside markets. Reports of early steady to higher cash fed cattle prices were also supportive. Toward the close, Live Cattle futures were an average of $2.42 higher. Feeder Cattle futures were an average of $4.88 higher. Negotiated cash fed cattle trade was mostly [...]

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Cattle Current Podcast—May 5, 2026

Cattle Current Market Update with Wes Ishmael ·

2026/05/04

Cattle futures closed lower again Monday with follow-through selling supported by more bearish outside markets. Toward the close, Live Cattle futures were an average of $1.84 lower. Feeder Cattle futures were an average of $4.60 lower. Negotiated cash fed cattle trade was mostly inactive on light to moderate demand in all major cattle [...]

7:08

Cattle Current Podcast—May 4, 2026

Cattle Current Market Update with Wes Ishmael ·

2026/05/03

Cattle futures closed lower Friday on likely profit taking from the week’s strong gains. Live Cattle futures closed an average of 77¢ lower. Feeder Cattle futures closed an average of $1.06 lower. Week to week on Friday, Live Cattle futures closed an average of $5.81 higher. Feeder Cattle futures closed an average of $10.74 [...]

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Cattle Current Podcast—May 1, 2026

Cattle Current Market Update with Wes Ishmael ·

2026/05/01

Cattle futures closed mixed to higher Thursday, supported by the week’s higher cash fed cattle prices. Live Cattle futures were mixed, from an average of 50¢ lower to an average of 61¢ higher on likely profit taking. Feeder Cattle futures closed an average of $1.07 higher. Negotiated cash fed cattle trade was mostly inactive [...]

6:50

Cattle Current Podcast—April 28, 2026

Cattle Current Market Update with Wes Ishmael ·

2026/04/28

Cattle futures stepped higher Monday. Toward the close, Live Cattle futures were an average of $3.11 higher. Feeder Cattle futures were an average of $5.49 higher. Negotiated cash fed cattle trade was inactive on light demand in all major cattle feeding regions through Monday afternoon, according to the Agricultural Marketing Service. Last week, FOB [...]

6:59

Cattle Current Podcast—April 27, 2026

Cattle Current Market Update with Wes Ishmael ·

2026/04/25

Cattle futures continued higher Friday, perhaps with fund selling coming to an and after the recent downward correction. Live Cattle futures closed an average of $1.62 higher. Feeder Cattle futures closed an average of $2.83 higher. Week to week on Friday, Live Cattle futures closed an average of 88¢ lower, except for 2¢ higher [...]

7:50

Cattle Current Podcast—April 24, 2026

Cattle Current Market Update with Wes Ishmael ·

2026/04/24

Cattle futures closed mostly higher Thursday despite the strike by workers at the Cargill beef packing plant in Fort Morgan, Colo., and with news that the Secretary of Agriculture cancelled her visit to the U.S.-Mexican border, which some had feared would feature an announced timeline for resuming Mexican feeder cattle imports. Live Cattle futures [...]

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Cattle Current Podcast—April 23, 2026

Cattle Current Market Update with Wes Ishmael ·

2026/04/23

Cattle futures struggled to firm Wednesday in the wake of a multi-day technical correction. Toward the close, Live Cattle futures were an average of 56¢ lower. Feeder Cattle futures were an average of 47¢ lower to an average of 16¢ higher. Negotiated cash fed cattle trade was light on moderate demand in Nebraska through [...]

6:06

Cattle Current Podcast—April 21, 2026

Cattle Current Market Update with Wes Ishmael ·

2026/04/21

Cattle futures were buoyed by Friday’s Cattle on Feed report early in Monday’s session but then faded with iffy outside markets and wonderments about this this week’s cash trade. Toward the close, Live Cattle futures were an average of 65¢ lower. Feeder Cattle futures were an average of $3.70 lower, except for $1.32 higher [...]

6:51

Cattle Current Podcast—April 20, 2026

Cattle Current Market Update with Wes Ishmael ·

2026/04/18

Cattle futures closed lower for a third consecutive session on Friday, but off session lows. Part of the early pressure was likely tied to some worries about the Secretary of Agriculture announcing a timetable for the U.S. border reopening during scheduled remarks in Texas, but she made no mention. Friday’s Cattle on Feed report [...]

5:55

Cattle Current Podcast—April 17, 2026

Cattle Current Market Update with Wes Ishmael ·

2026/04/16

Cattle futures extended losses Thursday with likely technical selling, profit taking and positioning ahead of Friday’s monthly Cattle on Feed report. Toward the close, Live Cattle futures were an average of $2.21 lower. Feeder Cattle futures were an average of $3.71 lower. Negotiated cash fed cattle trade was limited on moderate demand in the [...]

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Cattle Current Podcast—April 16, 2026

Cattle Current Market Update with Wes Ishmael ·

2026/04/15

Cattle futures were lower Wednesday. Part of it likely stemmed from rumors, yet again, about the reopening of the U.S. border to Mexican feeder cattle imports. Some profit taking ahead of Friday's Monthly Cattle on Feed report could have also added pressure. Early estimates see March placements and marketings down 6-7% with the April [...]

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Cattle Current Podcast—April 15, 2026

Cattle Current Market Update with Wes Ishmael ·

2026/04/14

Cattle futures were higher Tuesday, bolstered by more bullish outside markets and last week’s stronger cash trade. Toward the close, Live Cattle futures were an average of $1.47 higher. Feeder Cattle futures were an average of $1.65 higher. Negotiated cash fed cattle trade was inactive on light demand in all major cattle feeding regions [...]

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Cattle Current Podcast—April 14, 2026

Cattle Current Market Update with Wes Ishmael ·

2026/04/13

Cattle futures were mixed but mostly higher Monday. Toward the close, Live Cattle futures were narrowly mixed, from an average of 53¢ lower to an average of 42¢ higher. Feeder Cattle futures were an average of $1.43 higher. Negotiated cash fed cattle trade was inactive on light to moderate demand in all major cattle [...]

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Cattle Current Podcast—April 13, 2026

Cattle Current Market Update with Wes Ishmael ·

2026/04/12

Cattle futures closed higher Friday, and on the week, buoyed by steady to stronger early negotiated cash fed cattle prices. Live Cattle futures closed an average of 96¢ higher. Feeder Cattle futures closed an average of $1.98 higher, with gains likely capped by wonderment about when the U.S. border will re-open to Mexican feeder [...]

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Cattle Current Podcast—April 10, 2026

Cattle Current Market Update with Wes Ishmael ·

2026/04/09

Cattle futures eased higher Wednesday with stronger outside markets and growing expectations for steady to stronger negotiated cash fed cattle prices. Toward the close, Live Cattle futures were an average of $1.04 higher. Feeder Cattle futures were an average of $2.68 higher. Negotiated cash fed cattle trade was inactive on light to moderate demand [...]

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Cattle Current Podcast—April 9, 2026

Cattle Current Market Update with Wes Ishmael ·

2026/04/08

Cattle futures rose cautiously on Wednesday, helped along by falling oil prices and higher outside markets tied to the announced ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran. Toward the close, Live Cattle futures were an average of 85¢ higher, except for an average of 8¢ lower in two contracts. Feeder Cattle futures were an average [...]

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Cattle Current Podcast—April 8, 2026

Cattle Current Market Update with Wes Ishmael ·

2026/04/07

Negotiated cash fed cattle trade was inactive on light demand in all major cattle feeding regions through Tuesday afternoon, according to the Agricultural Marketing Service. Last week, FOB live prices were $7-$8 higher in the Texas Panhandle at $245-$246/cwt., mostly $8 higher in Kansas at mainly $246 and $10 higher in the North at [...]

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Cattle Current Podcast—April 6, 2026

Cattle Current Market Update with Wes Ishmael ·

2026/04/04

Negotiated cash fed cattle trade ranged from mostly inactive on moderate demand in the Southern Plains to limited on moderate demand in the North through Friday afternoon, according to the Agricultural Marketing Service. For the week, however, FOB live prices were mostly $245/cwt., which was $7 higher in the Southern Plains and $10 higher [...]

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Cattle Current Podcast—April 3, 2026

Cattle Current Market Update with Wes Ishmael ·

2026/04/02

Negotiated cash fed cattle prices took a strong step higher Thursday with moderate trade on moderate to good demand in the North, according to the Agricultural Marketing Service. FOB live prices were mainly $10 higher at mainly $245/cwt. Dressed delivered prices in Nebraska were $13 higher at $385. Although too few to trend, there [...]

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