live cattle breaking to new highs
Thanks very much, cutworm!
I haven't followed cattle in a long time but remember sometimes a correlation between grain prices and cattle prices.
And the stock market being very strong with strong cattle prices.
I'm working outside most of the day today but this is a great start to a new thread.
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I can't get price charts for cattle at the moment from the source posted here but will try to figure it out.
I forgot about this thread until just now:
By metmike - Oct. 23, 2025, 5:28 p.m.
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U.S. beef & beef product imports were record high in 2024 (up 25% on the year). Jan-July 2025 imports were up 27% over the same period in 2024. But U.S. beef prices have still surged in the last year+ *despite* the huge spike in imports.
Argentina accounted for 2% of U.S. beef & beef product imports in 2024, reaching a 24-year high. In Jan-July 2025, Argy beef imports were up 41% from the same period in 2024.
At least through August 2025, this increase in imports had not provided any relief for U.S. consumer in the way of beef prices.
Trump says U.S. cattle ranchers ‘don’t understand’ tariffs after some slam Argentine beef plan
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/22/trump-ranchers-beef-tariffs-argentina.html
Trump claimed that those ranchers “don’t understand that the only reason they are doing so well, for the first time in decades, is because I put Tariffs on cattle coming into the United States.”
He highlighted the 50% tariff he imposed in early August on imports from Brazil, one of the top sellers of beef to the U.S.
“If it weren’t for me, they would be doing just as they’ve done for the past 20 years — Terrible!” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.
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Trump just admitted that his tariffs cause higher prices and in this case, brags about them to claim that he is responsible for higher beef prices for consumers which is resulting in ranchers making money...BECAUSE OF HIM!
Incredibly, his Brazil tariffs are entirely designed to punish Brazil because they aren't treating his far right political friend the way he would like.
Seriously!
We have a positive trade balance with Brazil!
Trump’s tariff tsunami hits Brazil Brazil is pursuing partners across the globe, turning pressure into opportunity. Could Europe play a pivotal role?
https://www.ips-journal.eu/topics/economy-and-ecology/trumps-tariff-tsunami-hits-brazil-8512/
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Trumps tariffs are backfiring catastrophically in every way, shape and form but this was 100% certain to happen because of the indisputable principles of global economics involving free trade between countries.
His insane tariffs not only hurt both the US and all of our trading partners, but he has broken the law by imposing them. Our trading partners are REPLACING the US by forming new trading relationships with other countries. It's a fact that means long lived permanent damage.
More delusional tariffs!
Started by metmike - Sept. 14, 2025, 5:51 p.m.
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/114673/
I found the right command!
https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/live-cattle
1. 10 years
2. 1 year
3. 1 month
Beef prices have been increasing LONG before Trump imposed his irrational tariffs on Brazil. He might have made it worse with the supply shortage but didn't cause it and certainly isn't responsible for much of the dynamic causing ranchers to have the better profit margins currently compared to the past as he claims.
