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Cattle Prices Are Record High, Aren’t They?
Cornhusker Economics
  • Dillon Feuz, Panhandle Research and Extension Center, Scottsbluff NE
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9-17-2003
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Published in Cornhusker Economics, 09/17/2003. Produced by the Cooperative Extension, Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
http://www.agecon.unl.edu/Cornhuskereconomics.html
Abstract

Holy Cow! Can you believe the current cattle market? Fed cattle prices in Nebraska exceeded $90 per cwt. the week of September 7-13. The Chicago Mercantile Exchange September Feeder Cattle contract traded over $100 per cwt. A set of 5-weight steer calves sold for $120 per cwt. in North Platte on September 9. These are record high prices. But how high are these prices in relationship to other prices, or when you adjust them for inflation? Before answering that question, let’s first consider what has brought the market to this point.

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Dillon Feuz. "Cattle Prices Are Record High, Aren’t They?" (2003)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/dillon_feuz/182/