The USDA raised most of its 2024 protein production projections. Beef is seen at 27.025 billion pounds, 25 million higher, on heavier dressed weights and a faster cow slaughter, with an average steer price of $186.68 per hundredweight, up $.50, and increases in imports, exports, and consumption. Pork is estimated at 27.858 billion pounds, 90 […]

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