About us

Meat Read is wholesale meat market intel for protein buyers: the daily Read, live USDA cut prices, charts back to 2001, packer margin, grind and trim, and the supply and retail side, on one board the same evening USDA prints. Built by a buyer.

Protein buyers, importers, distributors, and category managers who price US wholesale daily and need a faster read than parsing raw market reports. Built specifically for North American sourcing, including Canadian importers running on USD reference prices.

• Every price is read against its season. A cut is rich or cheap relative to where it usually sits at this point of the year, its five-year level for the week, not relative to yesterday alone.
• Volume counts. A move printed on a fraction of a cut's normal load count is flagged thin. A move on real volume carries the read.
• Year-over-year always means same calendar week vs same calendar week 12 months prior. Not a 12-month trailing average.
• Carcass weights come from USDA's daily cattle purchase data, so the headline tracks what packers actually bought rather than a survey estimate.
• Every call is graded. Each directional call in the Weekly is scored against the USDA print once its window closes, in public, on the scorecard. Nothing is deleted and nothing is graded with hindsight.

Meat Read runs on U.S. government meat market reporting (USDA AMS, NASS, ERS), CME futures, Global Affairs Canada for TRQ fill, and live exchange rates. Prices display in USD, CAD, or EUR, per pound or per kilo.

The daily Read is free, every trading day, the same day it prints. A free account adds the Weekly, six months of chart history, and watchlist alerts. Pro is $89 a month or $979 a year with a 7-day trial and unlocks the rest. Team plans for shared desks: support@meatread.com.

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Questions, feedback, or feature requests: support@meatread.com