State of the Beef Market

The State of the Beef Market is ClearCut Forecasting's annual deep-dive analysis of the U.S. wholesale beef industry. Each edition examines the critical factors shaping beef prices and margins — from cattle inventory and slaughter capacity to retail demand, cold storage dynamics, and futures market structure. Our goal is to provide protein industry professionals with a rigorous, data-driven assessment of where the market stands and where it is headed, combining USDA data, proprietary modeling, and decades of domain expertise into a single reference document. New editions are published at the start of each year.