Cattle Current Podcast—Oct. 5, 2026

Cattle Current Market Update with Wes Ishmael · Oct 3, 2026 · 10m

Cattle futures weakened Friday, with sharply lower week-end wholesale beef prices and wobbly negotiated cash fed cattle prices.

Live Cattle futures were an average of $2.05 lower. Feeder Cattle futures were an average of $4.74 lower.

Week to week on Friday, Live Cattle futures closed an average of 71¢ lower, except for 32¢ higher in near Dec. During the same period, Feeder Cattle futures were an average of $1.22 higher, except for an average of 56¢ lower in the front two contracts.

Negotiated cash fed cattle trade was mostly light on moderate to good demand in the North through Friday…