Seasonally, prices typically drop in April, but this year may be an exception. June Live Cattle (Weekly) The weekly June Cattle chart indicates to me that we’ve had some greater price volatility ...

Proof of that statement is found in the fact that fed cattle prices averaged $68/cwt. during the 1990s and only $91/cwt. in the first decade of the 2000s. The accompanying chart depicts this ...

Below is a look at historical seasonality’s (updated each Monday) VS today’s prices (black line). Seasonally we start to see June futures soften up, but if you’ve been watching cattle at all ...