Elliott Dennis, Livestock Marketing and Risk Management Economist

Cattle eating grain from a bunk. Photo credit: Real Ag Stock

April 11, 2025

Leveraging the Price Slide: A Marketing Opportunity Amid Record-High Prices

By Elliott Dennis, Livestock Marketing and Risk Management Economist

Steers in a feedlot (Photo credit: Real Ag Stock)

April 11, 2025

The Steer-Heifer Price Difference: Implications for Herd Expansion

By Elliott Dennis, Livestock Marketing and Risk Management Economist

Cattle in feedlot

September 1, 2019

National Changes in Intensity and Type of Antimicrobials used for Metaphylaxis

By Elliott Dennis, Livestock Marketing and Risk Management Economist

Weaned calf on meadow

March 1, 2020

Consumers Pay Organic Premiums – Chicken is King and Beef Lags

By Elliott Dennis, Livestock Marketing and Risk Management Economist

Weaned Calf

March 1, 2020

Value Added Fed and Feeder Cattle Practices: Are they Paying?

By Elliott Dennis, Livestock Marketing and Risk Management Economist

Cattle on feed

March 1, 2020

Foreign Animal Disease: Implications for Traceability

By Elliott Dennis, Livestock Marketing and Risk Management Economist

Stocker cattle on feed

May 7, 2020

Pre-COVID-19 Market Conditions Persist & the Stocker Industry Can Dampen the Damage

By Elliott Dennis, Livestock Marketing and Risk Management Economist

Beef animal

May 8, 2020

Live Cattle Basis Due to Covid-19: Deviations and Convergence

By Elliott Dennis, Livestock Marketing and Risk Management Economist

Feeder calves

August 1, 2020

Feeder Cattle Future Price Spreads: Opportunities to Hedge?

By Elliott Dennis, Livestock Marketing and Risk Management Economist

cattle

August 1, 2020

Changing Grid Premiums and Discounts Due to Underlying Changes in the Fed Cattle Industry

By Elliott Dennis, Livestock Marketing and Risk Management Economist

beefwatch graphic

January 1, 2021

The Likelihood of Regional Triggers Under the Industry’s Proposed '75% Rule'

By Elliott Dennis, Livestock Marketing and Risk Management Economist

Calves at bunk

February 1, 2021

Improvements to Livestock Risk Protection Insurance Implemented in January 2021.

By Jay Parsons, Farm and Ranch Management Specialist, Elliott Dennis, Livestock Marketing and Risk Management Economist