For the week ending Aug. 2, 2014, Texas auctions quoted feeder cattle prices mostly steady to $10 higher per hundredweight (cwt), with the largest increases noted early in the week, and mostly steady prices by Friday and Saturday. Texas direct feeder cattle sales were $4 to $7 higher. Fed cattle … Read More

For the week ending July 26, 2014, Texas auctions quoted feeder cattle prices mostly steady to as much as $10 higher per hundredweight (cwt), though a few lower prices also were noted early in the week. Texas direct feeder cattle sales were $3 to $7 higher. Fed cattle cash prices … Read More

For the week ending July 19, 2014, Texas auctions quoted feeder cattle prices mostly steady to $6 lower per hundredweight (cwt), with a few as much as $12 lower and some steady to $6 higher. Texas direct feeder cattle sales were weak to $8 lower. Fed cattle cash prices were … Read More

For the week ending July 12, 2014, Texas auctions quoted feeder cattle prices mostly steady to $10 higher per hundredweight (cwt) early in the week. Later, following a drop in futures markets and fed cattle, prices were mostly steady to $4 lower. Texas direct feeder cattle sales were steady to … Read More

This week Evelyn Browning-Garriss, acclaimed author of The Browning Newsletter, shares with us an exclusive update on El Niño: what it is, where it is and what its development would mean for rain in Texas and Oklahoma.

Texas auctions quoted feeder cattle prices mostly steady to $5 higher per hundredweight (cwt) in a very light market test. Many locations were closed for the week for the July 4 holiday. Texas direct feeder cattle prices were $1 to $4 higher with the average for steers for current delivery … Read More

Texas had an unexpectedly wet week, with very heavy precipitation along the Gulf Coast and moderate to heavy precipitation in the interior East, supporting 1-category improvements. Relatively small alterations were made to the depiction in southern and far western Texas, both improvements and degradations.  In Oklahoma, widespread one-category improvements were … Read More

For the week ending June 28, 2014, Texas auctions quoted feeder cattle prices mostly $2 to $10 higher per hundredweight (cwt), with a few steady and some as much as $15 higher. Texas direct feeder cattle prices were $1 to $7 higher. Strong competition for limited supplies of feeder cattle … Read More

For the week ending June 21, 2014, Texas auctions quoted feeder cattle prices steady to $12 higher per hundredweight (cwt), with a few as much as $20 to $30 higher on some classes. Texas direct feeder cattle prices were mostly $1 to $4 higher, with some $8 higher. Strong demand … Read More

Despite temperatures in the 90s, rainfall during the week was sufficient to warrant some modest reductions in drought from northern and central Oklahoma southward into central Texas, while hot, mostly dry conditions in western and northeastern portions of Texas led to small increases in drought intensity. Showers and thunderstorms dropped … Read More