Cattle Markets, Price Discovery, and Emerging Issues

In June 2021, the USDA Office of the Chief Economist and the Agricultural and Food Policy Center (AFPC) at Texas A&M University jointly sponsored a workshop in Kansas City, Missouri, at which a series of papers summarizing work on fed cattle pricing issues were presented and discussed.  These papers, along with a summary of the workshop, were compiled into a book published by AFPC and available on their website at https://www.afpc.tamu.edu/research/publications/710/cattle.pdf.  The authors of those papers have produced the following series of factsheets which condense and summarize the main findings of their original work.

PD-2021-01 How We Got Here: A Brief History of Cattle and Beef Markets

PD-2021-02 Price Discovery - What It Is and What It Isn\'t

PD-2021-03 The Evolution of Fed Cattle Market Institutions

PD-2021-04 Market Reporting and Transparency

PD-2021-05 How Do Fed Cattle Markets Incorporate New Information?

PD-2021-06 Cattle Market Risks and Their Effect on Price Discovery

PD-2021-07 Assessing How Fed Cattle Pricing Alternatives Address Feeder and Packer Incentives

PD-2021-08 Potential Strategies for Improving Price Reporting and Transparency in the Fed Cattle Market

PD-2021-09 A Summary of COVID-19 Impacts on Beef and Cattle Markets

PD-2021-10  Examining Fed Cattle Negotiated Trade Targets

PD-2022-01 Alternative Marketing Agreement Use and the Supply/Demand Balance in the Fed Cattle Market

Comments from Economists: Comments on the “Cattle Price Discovery and Transparency Act of 2022”