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Wes Ishmael: cattle business analyst and journalist

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4:13

Cattle Current Podcast—April 2, 2026

Cattle Current Market Update with Wes Ishmael ·

2026/04/02

Cattle futures continued to gain Wednesday, helped by positive outside markets. Toward the close, Live Cattle futures were an average of 50¢ higher. Feeder Cattle futures were an average of $2.05 higher. Negotiated cash fed cattle trade was inactive on light demand in all cattle feeding regions through Wednesday afternoon, according to the Agricultural [...]

5:11

Cattle Current Podcast—April 1, 2026

Cattle Current Market Update with Wes Ishmael ·

2026/03/31

Cattle futures continued higher Tuesday, supported by more bullish outside markets and resurgent wholesale beef values. Toward the close, Live Cattle futures were an average of $2.02 higher. Feeder Cattle futures were an average of $4.46 higher. Negotiated cash fed cattle trade was inactive on light demand in all cattle feeding regions through Tuesday [...]

7:35

Cattle Current Podcast-March 31, 2026

Cattle Current Market Update with Wes Ishmael ·

2026/03/30

Cattle futures rose again Monday, building on last week’s gains, supported by higher negotiated cash fed cattle trade in the Southern Plains late Friday and firmer wholesale beef values. Toward the close, Live Cattle futures were an average of $1.15 higher. Feeder Cattle futures were an average of $2.24 higher. Negotiated cash fed cattle [...]

7:32

Cattle Current Podcast—March 30, 2026

Cattle Current Market Update with Wes Ishmael ·

2026/03/29

Cattle futures extended gains Friday, supported by steady negotiated cash fed cattle prices and a friendly quarterly Hogs and Pigs report indicating the breeding inventory was 1% less year over year. Live Cattle futures were an average of $2.87 higher. Feeder Cattle futures were an average of $5.93 higher. Week to week on Friday, [...]

4:50

Cattle Current Podcast—March 27, 2026

Cattle Current Market Update with Wes Ishmael ·

2026/03/26

Cattle futures faded early pressure to make gains Thursday, supported by early negotiated cash fed cattle trade at steady money. Toward the close, Live Cattle futures were an average of 81¢ higher. Feeder Cattle futures were an average of $1.56 higher. Negotiated cash fed cattle trade was light to moderate on moderate to good [...]

5:30

Cattle Current Podcast—March 26, 2026

Cattle Current Market Update with Wes Ishmael ·

2026/03/25

Cattle futures were lower Wednesday, pressured by a sharp decrease in Choice wholesale beef values. Choice boxed beef cutout value was $8.22 lower in the afternoon at $391.69/cwt. Select was 99¢ higher at $395.49. The Choice-Select spread was -$3.80. The last time the spread approached that level was in February 2022. Toward the close, [...]

4:51

Cattle Current Podcast—March 25, 2026

Cattle Current Market Update with Wes Ishmael ·

2026/03/24

Cattle futures were mostly higher on Tuesday, despite resurgent oil prices and volatile equity markets. Toward the close, Live Cattle futures were an average of 47¢ higher, except for an average of 15¢ lower in the front two contracts. Feeder Cattle futures were an average of $1.91 higher. Negotiated cash fed cattle trade was [...]

8:18

Cattle Current Podcast—March 24, 2026

Cattle Current Market Update with Wes Ishmael ·

2026/03/23

Cattle futures extended gains on Monday, helped by more bullish outside markets, and despite more placements than expected in Friday's monthly Cattle on Feed report.Toward the close, Live Cattle futures were an average of 84¢ higher, except for 45¢ lower in the back contract. Feeder Cattle futures were an average of $1.70 higher. Negotiated [...]

6:03

Cattle Current Podcast—March 23, 2026

Cattle Current Market Update with Wes Ishmael ·

2026/03/21

Cattle futures were higher Friday, helped along by steady cash fed cattle prices. Live Cattle futures were an average of $1.34 higher. Feeder Cattle futures were an average of $2.60 higher. Week to week on Friday, Live Cattle futures closed an average of $3.46 higher. Feeder Cattle futures closed an average of $6.96 higher. [...]

5:43

Cattle Current Podcast—March 20, 2026

Cattle Current Market Update with Wes Ishmael ·

2026/03/19

Cattle futures were lower Thursday, weighed down by bearish outside markets, tied to escalating energy prices and uncertainty stemming from the U.S.-Israel attack on Iran. Toward the close, Live Cattle futures were an average of $2.25 lower. Feeder Cattle futures were an average of $5.54 lower ($3.05 to $6.42 lower). Negotiated cash fed cattle [...]

5:47

Cattle Current Podcast—March 19, 2026

Cattle Current Market Update with Wes Ishmael ·

2026/03/19

Live Cattle futures eased higher on Wednesday, bolstered by thoughts that negotiated cash fed cattle prices could increase this week, and despite bearish outside markets. Feeder Cattle futures wobbled, though, with resurgent Corn futures and perhaps positioning ahead of Friday’s Monthly Cattle on Feed report. Broadly, analysts see February placements on par year over [...]

8:11

Cattle Current Podcast—March 16, 2026

Cattle Current Market Update with Wes Ishmael ·

2026/03/15

Cattle futures wobbled Friday with uneven outside markets and wonderment about the potential strike at the JBS plant in Greeley next week. Live Cattle futures closed an average of 42¢ lower. Feeder Cattle futures were mixed, from an average of 64¢ lower to an average of 68¢ higher. Week to week on Friday, Live [...]

5:58

Cattle Current Podcast—March 13, 2026

Cattle Current Market Update with Wes Ishmael ·

2026/03/12

Cattle futures firmed Thursday, helped by rising wholesale beef values and the cash premium to futures. Toward the close, Live Cattle futures were an average of $1.40 higher, except for 95¢ lower in the back contract. Feeder Cattle futures were an average of 61¢ higher, except for 5¢ lower in spot March and $2.57 [...]

4:58

Cattle Current Podcast—March 12, 2026

Cattle Current Market Update with Wes Ishmael ·

2026/03/11

Cattle futures lost ground Wednesday, as bearishness increased in outside markets. Toward the close, Live Cattle futures were an average of $1.97 lower. Feeder Cattle futures were an average of $5.19 lower. Negotiated cash fed cattle trade was moderate on moderate demand in Nebraska through Wednesday afternoon, according to the Agricultural Marketing Service. FOB [...]

5:57

Cattle Current Podcast—March 11, 2026

Cattle Current Market Update with Wes Ishmael ·

2026/03/10

Cattle futures gained Tuesday, helped by the decline in Crude Oil futures and the continued increase in wholesale beef values. Toward the close, Live Cattle futures were an average of $2.49 higher. Feeder Cattle futures were an average of $3.27 higher. Negotiated cash fed cattle trade ranged from limited on moderate demand in Nebraska [...]

6:07

Cattle Current Podcast—March 10, 2026

Cattle Current Market Update with Wes Ishmael ·

2026/03/09

Cattle futures were sharply lower again Monday, but off sessions lows, pressured by a range of factors, including last week's lower negotiated cash fed cattle prices, news that the JBS plant in Greeley, Colo. was cancelling slaughter at the plant this week ahead of the potential strike, and spiking Crude oil futures pressuring outside [...]

9:49

Cattle Current Podcast—March 9, 2026

Cattle Current Market Update with Wes Ishmael ·

2026/03/08

Cattle futures were sharply lower Friday, pressured by bearish outside markets and another week of lower negotiated cash fed cattle prices. Also on Friday, the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7, which represents workers at the JBS plant, gave notice that it was cancelling its extension agreement effective 11:59 p.m., March 15. So, [...]

5:17

Cattle Current Podcast—March 6, 2026

Cattle Current Market Update with Wes Ishmael ·

2026/03/05

Cattle futures were mixed on Thursday. Toward the close, Live Cattle futures were an average of 34¢ higher on continued fundamental strength. Feeder Cattle futures were an average of $1.31 lower with likely profit taking from the previous session’s sharp gains. Negotiated cash fed cattle trade was mostly inactive on light demand in [...]

4:25

Cattle Current Podcast—March 5, 2026

Cattle Current Market Update with Wes Ishmael ·

2026/03/04

Recently surging wholesale beef values and more positive outside market helped Cattle futures rally higher Wednesday. Toward the close, Live Cattle futures were an average of $4.11 higher. Feeder Cattle futures were an average of $6.96 higher. Negotiated cash fed cattle trade was mostly inactive on light demand in all major cattle feeding regions [...]

5:17

Cattle Current Podcast—March 4, 2026

Cattle Current Market Update with Wes Ishmael ·

2026/03/03

Cattle futures were mostly able to hold the previous session’s gains on Tuesday after early pressure tied to declining outside markets. Toward the close, Live Cattle futures were an average of 64¢ higher. Feeder Cattle futures were narrowly mixed, from unchanged to an average of 72¢ lower in three contracts (2¢ to $1.97 lower) [...]

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