Ground beef now makes up half of consumption as imports and heavier weights offset lower slaughter amid tight supplies.

A shrunken U.S. beef herd has forced meat processors into a bidding war for a dwindling supply of animals, making it harder ...

Since President Donald Trump’s comments last week, a lot has been discussed on social media and at the coffee shop about increasing beef imports from Argentina, beef retail prices, the cattle market ...

The culprit is a rapidly shrinking supply of cattle. Years of drought conditions, which make cattle more expensive to raise, pandemic disruptions and widespread cost increases have prompted ranchers ...

The latest available CPI data shows the beef and veal category is up 14.7% while overall food is up 3.1%. The start of 2025 saw the lowest cattle numbers in the U.S. since 1951. Severe drought over ...

Average beef price in US cities already up 43% since early 2020 After years of drought, North American cattle herds are thin US herd smallest in 74 years, Canada's smallest in 36 years WINNIPEG, ...

Tyson Foods said its beef business could lose up to $500 million this year as the supply of cattle reaches a 75-year low. By Kevin Draper Reporting from Kansas City, Mo. The price of beef rose 16.4 ...

Between Oct. 18 and Oct. 23, six days after a bearish Cattle on Feed report, the January Feeder Cattle (Figure 1) contract fell 6.5%, from $252.86/cwt to $236.41/cwt, while December live cattle fell 4 ...