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2525 US Hwy 281 · Hamilton, TX 76531
(254) 386-3185
Weekly · Tue
The dominant Texas sheep/goat benchmark. Weighted-average price by class — slaughter, replacement, feeder — for both sheep and goats, graded live at ringside.
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Weekly · Fri
Direct (off-auction, private-treaty) sheep sales reported nationally.
Monthly
Published the first Monday of each month; replacement-ewe and breeding-stock pricing trends.
Quarterly
Direct-to-consumer pricing for grass-fed lamb and goat — retail cuts, carcass pricing, processing fees.
Weekly
Tracks which retailers are running goat-meat features and at what price.
Daily
Same coverage as the weekly, refreshed each trading day.
Country-wide roll-up of negotiated sheep prices by class and region for the week.
Narrative + data review of the week's slaughter sheep trade.
Federally inspected slaughter counts by species and region — head counts, live/dressed weight, production volume.
Snapshot of the day's cattle and boxed-beef trade — the fastest-moving national report.
The week's cattle and beef trade rolled into one narrative + data report.
Hub page
Index of every national and regional slaughter-cattle report — negotiated, formula/grid, and committed-and-delivered cattle.
Negotiated purchases, formulated/forward contracts, and prior-week slaughter mix.
Same slaughter-cattle categories broken out by feeding region instead of nationally.
Daily AM/PM national feeder & stocker summaries plus 20+ state weekly auction summaries in the same format as the Texas report.
Off-auction feeder-cattle trades, nationally and by state.
The best single statewide comparison for Hamilton. Compiled with the Texas Dept. of Agriculture — feeder, slaughter, and replacement cattle (pairs, bred cows/heifers, bulls) in one table.
Direct and private-treaty feeder-cattle trades originating in TX and neighboring states.
Weekly · Mon
AMS's interactive visualization tool for feeder & stocker cattle — charts and maps, updated Mondays.
Bi-weekly
Alfalfa and Bermuda grass pricing (plus mixed grass) by Texas region — Central, Panhandle, South — broken out by grade and bale format.
Same format as the Texas report, broken out by Oklahoma region (Central, North Central, Northeast, Northwest).
Same format, New Mexico coverage.
Index of every state's daily/weekly grain-bid report — the source for the Texas and Oklahoma links above, plus every other state.
National and export grain reports — rice, dry beans/peas/lentils, oilseeds, and export inspection volumes.
Cash bids and basis for corn, sorghum, and wheat out of Amarillo, TX.
Export elevator bids and basis for corn, soybeans, and wheat moving through Gulf Coast ports.
Same coverage as the Texas report, for Oklahoma elevators.
One consolidated narrative covering all of the above — oilseed meals, animal proteins, corn byproducts, millfeeds — with week-over-week price direction. Good single-page overview if the three reports above are more detail than needed.
The one most relevant to cattle rations — DDGS, corn gluten feed/meal, soybean meal, cottonseed meal, canola meal, and similar processor byproducts.
Meat and bone meal, blood meal, feather meal — rendered animal-protein feed ingredients.
Wheat millfeed/millrun, rice bran, alfalfa meal, and other miscellaneous feed ingredients.
