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Latest USDA close · July 17, 2026
Live · refreshes every USDA close (~5 PM ET)
Choice cutout
$366.81
-1.57 day-on-day
Select cutout
$355.29
-0.40 day-on-day
Pork carcass
$104.41
+1.99 day-on-day
Beef loads
111
-10% vs 5yr avg
Pork loads
268
+21% vs 5yr avg
Thursday's read
July 16, 2026
Thursday's read below. Subscribers get every trading day's read live, full price history, supply desk pipeline, and more.
The beef plate complex lost its floor: Choice plate inside skirt traded through the low end of its three week band. Beef loin is still lower, now 9 sessions into the run. The proteins parted ways on the session, beef and pork moving against each other.
Built so a Monday-morning buyer can run procurement, hedging, and retail-feature reads without flipping between four subscriptions. Free tier covers daily price work; paid unlocks the read, supply-side data, and projections.
Chartfree
Every beef and pork cut, plus beef cow and variety meats. 6 months free; Pro adds full history and the seasonal overlay.
Cut Pricesfree
Sparkline grid of every cut with day, week, month deltas.
Calendarfree
USDA + NASS release calendar with the late-publish detector.
Newsfree
Curated meat-industry feed, ranked by impact.
Weekly Notefree
The Weekly Meat Read. Sunday-evening forward note. Free.
Watchlistfree
Pin cuts, get price-target alerts, syncs across devices.
Track Recordfree
90-day hit rate + 20-year backtest of every directional call.
Today's Readpaid
Today's read on the cutout and the cuts that drove it.
Price Actionpaid
Every cut ranked by today's move, so you spot the breakout before it's news.
Ground beef, beef CL trim 50 to 90, and pork trim. Cheapest path to your lean point, plus whole-muscle vs 90CL.
Primal Complexpaid
Cutting margins and primal spreads across beef round and chuck, pork hams, bellies, and loin. Know if fabricating pays before you buy.
Retail Featurespaid
Which cuts stores are featuring this week, by primal and cut, split across conventional, organic, ABF, and halal.
Quota Watchpaid
Canadian beef and chicken TRQ fill rates with days-to-cap projections.
Poultry Deskpaid
Chicken and turkey wholesale, parts and whole-bird, with the hatchery supply pipeline. The 35-year broiler composite is free.
Forecastspaid
Forward projections with backtested accuracy band on every chart.
Landed Costpaid
Layer your own freight onto every price, FOB or landed, across chart, grind, and complex.
On every cut
Point it at any cut. Get the read back.
Pull up any beef or pork cut and Meat Read reads the chart the way a desk veteran would. What the trend is doing, where the seasonal pressure sits, and what the forecast horizon (13, 26, or 52 weeks) projects. Now point it at the Choice, Select, or pork cutout index itself, with volume and seasonal overlaid. Not a dashboard you have to interpret. A read you can act on.
Brisket faded on the heaviest tape in a month. The premium is parked in the flat, not the point: deli buying is carrying this, and the spread is the receipt.
Brisket is running a quarter above its 5-year seasonal norm with the tape leaning heavier into the fade. The recent floor is the level to watch if the print breaks. Toggle the chart's forecast overlay on for the projected band.
The setup
Deli processors set the base demand; BBQ adds the seasonal upside. The flat-to-point spread tells you which one is paying the premium this week.
Today's angle
A fade on the heaviest tape in a month means sellers are meeting a real bid on the way down, not marking quotes lower. A second heavy-volume down session would say grinders are done paying up; a quiet hold keeps the premium intact.
Free shows you the chart, the week-over-week, and six months of history. Paid gives you the read, the forecast band, the seasonal overlay, and the full tape: 20+ years of daily USDA prints.
Track record
Every call the Read makes gets graded in public.
Each Weekly Meat Read commits to directional calls on named cuts. When a call's window closes, it is scored right or wrong against that cut's actual USDA print. Nothing gets deleted, nothing is graded with hindsight.
62%of cuts the signal engine flags cheap firm within a month.
Separate measure: the same signal engine backtested across two decades of USDA prints. Cuts it flags cheap firm within a month 62% of the time, versus 52% with no signal.
Signal
62%
No signal
52%
16,207 backtested calls · 306 cuts · 2006 to 2026 · walk-forward, no hindsight
Past performance is not a guarantee of future results.
Built by a buyer
We built this because nothing else was built for us.
The institutional platforms work. They also cost $20,000 to $50,000 a year and were written for the salesforce that sold them to you, not the buyer doing the procurement.
Meat Read covers the same ground. Cutout, kill, packer margin, retail features, quota fill, cold storage, trade flow, forecasts. The daily read says what the numbers mean in the language a senior trader would actually use on the phone.
$89 a month. The Sunday note stays free. No analysts, no salesforce, no contracts. Used every trading day on the desk of a Canadian importer.
What you get
17 working surfaces. Daily Read, Price Action, Supply Desk, Grind & Trim, Retail Features, Quota Watch, Poultry Desk, forecasts on every chart.
What you pay
$89/month or $979/year (12th month free). 7-day trial. No setup fee. No salesforce. Cancel anytime. Team plan from 2 seats ($72/seat, volume pricing down to $45/seat at scale), self-serve.
What stays free
Yesterday's read, the Sunday weekly note, the chart with 6 months of history, cut prices, USDA calendar, news feed, watchlist, alerts.
Free, no account
Read the market before you pay for it.
The reference layer is open: live USDA cut prices, the cutout pages, the report calendar, and a library of market guides written for buyers, not analysts.
Team volume pricing: $72/seat (1-10 seats), $60/seat (11-25), $45/seat (26-100).
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FAQ
Questions buyers ask.
How does the free trial work?+
The trial runs seven days. You enter a card to start, through Stripe, but you are not charged until the trial ends, and you can cancel anytime before then in one click. The trial is available once per account.
What do I get free versus paid?+
The free tier covers six months of price history, your watchlist, alerts, news, the calendar, and the Weekly Meat Read delivered to your inbox. The Weekly is free to read on the site too. Pro at $89 a month unlocks the live daily read, full price history, the supply desk, and the deeper analytics tools.
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