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Despite long-standing trends showing an increase in meat consumption as countries’ incomes rise, a shift seems to be occurring.

Another week is in the books, here’s what happened in the grain markets.

Osage, Iowa was able to raise enough money, without raising taxes, to build the Cedar River Complex, which features an indoor pool, fitness center, walking track, basketball courts, 600 seat theatre, museum and more.

We share fresh outlook for the corn market broken down into the next 5, 30 and 90 day segments.

Precision Mazes is able to turn a blank space into a crop art masterpiece with meticulous detail. Their latest project transitioned a harvested wheat field in Missouri into a larger than life welcome to Taylor Swift.

Grains lower on favorable weather but also awaiting supply direction from the WASDE. Cotton closes higher but is still rangebound. Cattle post a strong recovery with lower corn. Darren Frye, Water Street Solutions.

Average cattle and hog finishing margins are both positive for the third consecutive week, according to calculations in the Sterling Marketing Profit Tracker.

Cattle and hog finishing margins are both positive for the fourth consecutive week despite the fact cash prices for cattle and hogs were slightly lower last week.

Closeouts on cattle and hogs marketed last week remain modestly profitable for the sixth consecutive week, according to calculations by Sterling Marketing.

On a percentage basis, beef packer margins declined significantly last week. It’s all relative, of course, since the starting point from the previous week was stunning.