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Protein Pulse Podcast

Protein Pulse Podcast

著者： Shawn Sparks
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The Protein Pulse Podcast delivers concise, commercially focused protein market intelligence for buyers, sellers, traders, procurement leaders, processors, and executives across the beef, pork, chicken, feed, and global protein markets. Each episode translates USDA data, market pricing, slaughter trends, trade flows, imports, feed costs, policy developments, and supply-chain signals into clear, practical market context. The focus is simple: cut through the noise, explain what the numbers mean, and give protein professionals the market context they need before making their next decision. Your Daily Market Update on All Things Protein.Copyright 2026 Shawn Sparks
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  • THE PROTEIN PULSE — DRIVE TIME | Thursday Margin Monitor | September 24, 2026

    THE PROTEIN PULSE — DRIVE TIME | Thursday Margin Monitor | September 24, 2026
    2026/09/24

    HOST: Protein Pulse Drive Time. Thursday Margin Monitor, September twenty-fourth. From The Sparks Group.

    SHAWN: Everybody has an answer for making beef cheaper. I’m just not convinced everybody understands what it takes to put it on the dinner plate — especially in Washington. And hell, if that isn’t enough, I paid six forty-nine a gallon for diesel yesterday here in Oklahoma. Everybody wants affordable beef. Before Washington starts telling everybody how to make it cheaper, maybe we ought to appreciate what it takes to put it on the damn plate.

    HOST: Southwest Kansas processing is under workforce uncertainty. USDA Wednesday cattle slaughter ninety-four thousand. Year-to-date down seven point six percent. How much of that is immigration enforcement is still unverified.

    SHAWN: Sterling has feedlots at minus three twenty-four and packers at plus one thirty-nine. Domestic fresh nineties four ten FOB plant. Platts imported nineties three nineteen CIF East Coast. Ninety-one cents of quoted spread — not ninety-one cents of delivered savings. Hogs and Pigs is two p.m. Central. Pre-report near ninety-nine percent of year-ago. The BEEF Act would put Congress back over the three-hundred-thousand-ton window. It is not law.

    HOST: All six pork primals lower. Chicken slaughter up one point one percent year-to-date. Crude ninety-two. Distillate inventories down twelve point seven percent.

    SHAWN: The decisions still come down to supply, specification, delivered cost, and timing. Stay disciplined.

    HOST: Protein Pulse Drive Time. Shawn Sparks, The Sparks Group.

    SHAWN: Stay disciplined.
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  • THE PROTEIN PULSE — DRIVE TIME | Thursday Margin Monitor | September 24, 2026

    THE PROTEIN PULSE — DRIVE TIME | Thursday Margin Monitor | September 24, 2026
    2026/09/24
    HOST: Welcome to The Protein Pulse Podcast — your daily market update on all things protein. This is Thursday Margin Monitor for September 24, 2026, from The Sparks Group.SHAWN: Everybody has an answer for making beef cheaper. I’m just not convinced everybody understands what it takes to put it on the dinner plate — especially in Washington. Until you’ve shoveled inedible byproducts beneath a slaughter floor in a hundred-degree-plus heat just to keep the line running, or spent ten hours inventorying meat in a minus-ten-degree blast freezer while it’s over a hundred outside in West Texas, you don’t really understand the work behind putting meat on America’s dinner tables. You don’t forget those days. Now immigration enforcement is raising workforce concerns in southwest Kansas. Congress is debating beef imports while domestic fresh ninety C L sits ninety-one cents above imported lean. USDA is working to rebuild the cattle herd while suggesting consumers consider other proteins when beef gets expensive. And hell, if that isn’t enough, I paid six forty-nine a gallon for diesel yesterday here in Oklahoma. At this rate, I’m going to need a second mortgage just to fill up the truck. Everybody wants affordable beef. But before Washington starts telling everybody how to make it cheaper, maybe we ought to appreciate what it takes to put it on the damn plate.HOST: Immigration enforcement raises workforce concerns across southwest Kansas beef processing as cattle slaughter remains down seven point six percent year-to-date. Feedlot losses deepen while packers maintain positive estimated margins. Congress enters the beef import debate with domestic fresh nineties priced ninety-one cents above imported lean. Diesel costs, Black Sea grain disruptions, and major protein investments in Southeast Asia add to an already busy week.SHAWN: KMUW reported Thursday morning that New Frontiers, a southwest Kansas civic organization, alleged ice agents entered National Beef’s Dodge City facility Wednesday and removed employees from the production line. NPR’s Midwest Newsroom could not independently confirm that account. National Beef’s Liberal operation separately altered employee starting times. A Cargill employee in Dodge City described coworkers not reporting to work. Reuters reported traders linking some reduced slaughter to employees staying home. The amount of production lost specifically because of immigration enforcement remains unverified.HOST: USDA estimated Wednesday’s cattle slaughter at ninety-four thousand, versus one hundred two thousand the previous Wednesday and one hundred twenty-one thousand nine hundred fourteen a year ago. Week-to-date two hundred ninety-nine thousand against three hundred fifty-one thousand one hundred nine last year. Year-to-date down seven point six percent. Those numbers establish the reduction in processing, but not its precise cause. Cargill’s Fort Morgan facility is recovering gradually. Steiner cited media reports placing operations at about twenty-five percent of expected capacity. Fed cattle slaughter totaled four hundred twenty-four thousand last week, down five point seven percent year over year. Steiner projects about four hundred sixteen thousand this week.SHAWN: Sterling estimates feedlot losses widened to three twenty-three sixty-eight a head, versus three oh seven nineteen the previous week and a profit of six twenty-three eighty-two in the comparable week last year. Packer margins remained positive at one thirty-eight eighty, down from one seventy-seven sixteen. Cattle marketed last week carried an estimated two forty-five breakeven against an average Choice steer of two twenty-one eighty-eight. Hales estimates packer margins one twenty-five to one fifty. Steiner reports improved processing economics since early August through higher comprehensive beef values, lower cattle acquisition costs, and about twenty dollars a head more in byproduct value. These are modeled industry estimates, not individual packer financial results.HOST: Choice closed three seventy-seven, down a cent fifty-eight. Select three fifty-two, down five fifty-one. Spread twenty-five cents. Choice deckle-off briskets averaged four twenty-nine. Kansas City barbecue operators continue reporting elevated beef costs. Hales places the current Choice brisket assessment about six cents below its comparable year-earlier level. A single wholesale cut does not represent a restaurant’s entire beef purchasing and operating costs.SHAWN: Chicken. Wednesday slaughter thirty-four point nine five eight million birds. Year-to-date about seven point oh three four billion, up one point one percent. Nielsen I Q data reported by Meat and Poultry show turkey reaching eighty-seven percent of U.S. households. Ground turkey generated two point one billion in retail sales, up seven point seven percent, while volume declined one point seven. Higher dollar sales do not necessarily represent increased ...
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  • THE PROTEIN PULSE — DRIVE TIME | Wednesday Watchlist | September 23, 2026

    THE PROTEIN PULSE — DRIVE TIME | Wednesday Watchlist | September 23, 2026
    2026/09/23
    THE PROTEIN PULSE — DRIVE TIMEWednesday Watchlist | September 23, 2026

    HOST: Protein Pulse Drive Time. Wednesday Watchlist, September twenty-third. From The Sparks Group.

    SHAWN: Know your market. Know your external risks. And make sure your meat isn’t paying somebody else’s bills. August placements fell nine point two percent to the lowest August on record — one point six one seven million head. On-feed still up seven-tenths. Year-to-date slaughter down seven point five percent, about one point six million fewer cattle. Heavier carcasses and higher Choice grading are offsetting some of the missing head, not all of it.

    HOST: Santa Teresa is scheduled to reopen Thursday. Historically about forty-three percent of Mexican cattle imports. That helps feeders. It does not immediately restore finished cattle.

    SHAWN: Sterling has packers at plus one thirty-nine and feedlots at minus three twenty-four. Imported nineties three nineteen C I F Philadelphia versus domestic four twenty. That’s about a dollar of gross spread — not a dollar of delivered savings. New Zealand is heading into its seasonal low. China is taking October production. S and P has about twenty-two thousand tons cleared under the September tranche. The window closes the thirtieth.

    HOST: Hogs and Pigs Thursday. Breeding herd expected down seven-tenths. Current packer margin is thirteen cents underwater. Turkey: more than six hundred thousand birds affected in five weeks. Crude down. Diesel up. Don’t assume cheaper freight.

    SHAWN: The opportunity isn’t the lowest quote. It’s whether that value survives the trip to your customer’s dock. Stay disciplined.

    HOST: Protein Pulse Drive Time. Shawn Sparks, The Sparks Group.

    SHAWN: Stay disciplined.
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