Presentations: e-mail Sandy if you need the file in Powerpoint.

• Cattle Outlook (updated 11-16-09) pdf
• Livestock Risk Protection: A New Price Management Tool for Lamb Producers (11-10-09) pdf
• Livestock Situation and Outlook: Outlook Conferences (10-16-09) pdf
• Cattle, Hog, and Sheep Seasonal Price Charts (updated 10-2-09) pdf
• Cattle Situation and Outlook: N.D. Stockmens' Assn. Conf. (9-25-09) pdf
• Livestock Situation and Outlook: Market Club In-Service (9-22-09) pdf
• Livestock Situation and Outlook: Washburn In-service (9-9-09) pdf
• Livestock Risk Protection: A New Price Management Tool for Livestock Producers (10-23-09) pdf
• Summer Grazing Outlook (updated 3-26-09) pdf
• Applied Price Forecasting (Ag Econ 344 class, 3-9-09) pdf
• Livestock Outlook: Annie's Project (2-13-09) pdf
• Futures and Options: Live Cattle/Feeder Cattle (1-26-09) pdf
• Livestock Situation (presented at Outlook Conferences for Ag Lenders, Nov 3-6, 2008) pdf
• Is COOL, COOL (9-2-08) ppt
• Short Term Marketing Strategies During A Drought (5-19-08) pdf
• Futures, Options and LRP: Lean Hogs (2-21-08) pdf
• Cow-Calf Management School (2-11-08) pdf
• Sheep and Lamb Market Outlook (updated 3-20-07) ppt
• Beef Cow Strategies under Drought Conditions (7-28-06) Powerpoint
• IRS Tax Issues for Livestock Sales in Drought Year (updated 7-28-06) Powerpoint

Budgets

• Summer 2009 Grazing Budget (updated 3-24-09) Excel
• Projected Fall 2009 Cow-Calf Budget (updated 2-11-09) Excel
• Backgrounding 550 lb Steers (updated 10-21-09) Excel

Market Advisor

• U.S. Cattle Herd Continues to Decline (7-29-09)  The prices for all market classes of cattle declined sharply in the second half of 2008, which also reduced profitability in the cattle sector. FULL STORY
• What's Up or Down With Cow Prices? (7-23-09) Although prices in mid-July were similar to last year's levels, cow prices likely will not increase to the high levels reached last August. FULL STORY