As we near the holidays, we walk through some of the volatile dynamics in the cattle markets currently surrounding prices, news headlines, consumer demand, rebuilding the herd and more. Lance Zimmerman, Senior Beef Analyst at Rabobank, joins us for a conversation at the 2025 NAFB Convention in Kansas City, MO.
This week brought a softer — and earlier — cash market, with a clear sense that leverage slipped away from producers. On this week’s Cattle Chatter, Brad Kooima with Kooima Kooima Varilek says ideal weather has cattle gaining well, adding pounds heading into processing, and that’s contributing to what he calls a little “processing greed” right now. With Thanksgiving next week, it’s a shortened run, but the hope is that holiday demand will kick in and shift the focus toward beef as we move through the holiday stretch.
