USDA data, independent analysis
Know what the packer knows.
$49 a month after 14 days free.
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- ✓The daily Read in full: every trading day, the same day it prints, on the site with no account, or by email each morning
- ✓Live USDA prices for every beef, pork, chicken and turkey cut, with the week's move, in ¢/lb, $/kg, C$/kg or €/kg
- ✓Six months of chart on every beef and pork cut
- ✓Cash cattle and cash hogs in full: daily by region and by purchase type, the week, the hog schedule, and basis against the board
- ✓Beef trim and ground beef prices with two grind calculators: which muscle is the cheapest lean, and whether grinding your own 81% beats the print
- ✓USDA's daily chicken market commentary and the chicken and turkey parts, weekly
- ✓Watchlist, synced across devices, with price-target alerts on any cut
- ✓The Weekly Meat Read in full, delivered by email
- ✓USDA report calendar, holidays, and the live news feed
- ✓Learn library: cut education, market explainers, TRQ and trim primers, USDA report guides
Pro
$49/month
Or $490 a year, two months free. Switch from your account anytime.
14 days free
The call
- ✓Cheap or expensive for the date, cut by cut, with Today's Read
- ✓The Pro lines under the daily Read, the Cutout Breakdown, and the cheap or expensive word on every cut you pin
- ✓Movers: the day's unusual prints ranked, with the read on each
Charts
- ✓Full chart history with volume: beef to 2001, pork to 2013, poultry to 2022
- ✓Forecast band and the seasonal normal on every chart
- ✓The Choice, Select and pork cutout indices on the chart, against any cut
- ✓Per-part trend lines on chicken and turkey, and the weekly chick placements and eggs set
Desk tools
- ✓Primals: the read on each primal complex, over its ladder of cuts and the cutting margin behind it
- ✓Landed-cost mode: your own freight on every price
- ✓Feature Activity: the read on the week's ads, year over year by cut, and the feature calendar ahead
Supply and trade
- ✓Supply Desk: beef and hog supply, now and ahead: kill by class, weights, packer margins, placements, feeders, the herd
- ✓Trade Flow and export sales: monthly imports and exports by origin, and USDA's weekly beef and pork export sales
- ✓Canada TRQ: chicken and beef import permits by pool, week by week, what each origin declared per kg, and when each chicken pool fills at this year's pace
- ✓Every series as an Excel workbook: any cut's daily prints, kill, cash cattle, trade. Two years on monthly, the full history on annual
Team
Give every buyer on your desk Pro. $39 per seat per month, 3 to 10 seats, one invoice.
- Each trader prices off the full history, the seasonal line and Today's Read.
- Each seat keeps its own watchlist and alerts, and seats move when people do.
- The full Excel archive on every seat.
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