Meat Read
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  • ✓The daily Read in full: every trading day, the same day it prints, no account needed
  • ✓Live USDA prices for every beef, pork, chicken, and turkey cut, with week-over-week, in ¢/lb, $/kg, C$/kg or €/kg
  • ✓6-month chart history 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
  • ✓USDA's daily chicken market commentary, straight off the wire
  • ✓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
  • ✓Public scorecard: 90-day prediction track record and 20-year signal backtest
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Pro answers one question on every cut: is today’s price a good one?
  • Where each cut sits against its own normal for this week.
  • Which way it is leaning, and why, every morning.
  • The day’s unusual prints, ranked, with the read on each.
  • The full USDA record behind every chart, beef to 2001, pork to 2013, so the normal is real.
Everything in Free, plus:
Charts and signals
  • ✓Full chart history with volume: beef to 2001, pork to 2013, poultry to 2022
  • ✓Forecast band and seasonal overlay on every chart
  • ✓Choice, Select, and pork cutout indices, charted
  • ✓The value signal on every cut, plus DoD, YoY, and vs-seasonal
  • ✓Today's angle: a fresh per-cut read, every day
The session
  • ✓Full morning briefing: the Cutout Breakdown under the Read, and the seasonal read on every cut you pin
  • ✓Movers: the day's unusual prints ranked, with the read on each
  • ✓Today on the Floor: the session's prints and headlines, timestamped
Desk tools
  • ✓Primal Complex Analyzer: whether fabricating the primal pays
  • ✓Grind and Trim: the CL ladder and blend-vs-buy math
  • ✓Landed-cost mode: your own freight on every price
  • ✓Retail Feature Activity: store counts by Conventional, Halal, ABF, Organic
  • ✓Per-cut trend lines on chicken and turkey parts
Supply and trade
  • ✓Supply Desk: beef and hog supply, now and ahead: kill by class, weights, packer margins, placements, feeders, the herd
  • ✓Trade Flow: monthly imports and exports, by origin
  • ✓Canada TRQ tracker: live fill rates and projected fill dates, chicken and beef
  • ✓Every series as an Excel workbook: any cut's daily prints, kill, cash cattle, trade. Two years on monthly, the full history on annual

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