E199: Everything We Know About the 2024 Cattle Markets

The DTN Ag Summit Series event "Navigating the Cattle Markets Ups and Downs" is a wrap, but for those who missed the industry leading data and analysis, we’ve got you covered. This week on the podcast we’re dropping in on the keynote presentation from DTN Livestock Analyst ShayLe Stewart, who tackled the latest numbers, broke down forecasts, and answered audience questions to boot.

ShayLe’s presentation will dig into the drought monitor and the outlook for grass in 2024, and offer insight on how that may interact with a record low cattle herd. She’ll troll back through the last decade of prices and production to gain some historical perspective on what might be in store as the robust cattle market moves forward, and she helps us peak behind the curtain at packer margins and import/export figures to get a better idea of the game plans of other key actors in these markets. Then she’ll dig into the outstanding risk in the marketplace, especially the Avian influenza story, and where perceptions, markets, and producers can go from here.

We’ll talk about cull bulls, interest rates, and what aging producers might mean for the next decade of the cattle markets.

You can watch previous Ag Summit Series events or sign up for future ones at https://www.dtn.com/2024-ag-summit-series/