Where the numbers come from

Most reports on this site are built from the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service's Livestock Market News — the same federal market reporters who sit at the sale and record what cattle actually brought. We ingest each report as it's published, covering 365 markets across 39 states, and print it in full: every weight break, grade, and class, the head counts, and the reporter's own commentary.

Some cattle auctions aren't on a USDA reporter's route at all. Where an auction publishes its own market report, we read that too and label it as the auction's — it carries the auction's name, links back to the auction's own page, and is never presented as a USDA document. An auction often prints a price range rather than an average; we show the range it printed rather than inventing a midpoint.

What we add

• The whole archive. Not just the latest sale — every past report for a market, on its own page.
• Comparisons. Each class lined up against the previous sale at the same market.
• Plain math, honestly labeled. Prices quoted per cwt stay per cwt; bred stock and pairs sold by the head are shown by the head. When we compute anything, the page says how.
• A link to the source. Every report page links to what it was built from — the official USDA document, or, for a sale USDA doesn’t report, the auction’s own published report.

Who runs this

Cattle Market Pulse is an independent product of Kwabu LLC. We are not affiliated with or endorsed by the USDA. The mobile app is in final testing — join the list to hear when it launches.

A note on accuracy

Market data is for information only, not trading or investment advice. USDA occasionally corrects a published report; when that happens, the corrected figures replace the originals here and the page is marked. If a number here disagrees with the official USDA PDF, the PDF wins — and we'd like to know: the report page links to it.