The U.S. cattle herd continued to contract over the past year. The USDA says the domestic cattle inventory on January 1st, 2026, was 86.155 million head, a little bit below January 1st, 2025. Only a couple of the major inventory categories saw any kind of growth, and the 2025 calf crop was 2% smaller than […]

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