# Prices, Weights & Quality Escalate

> A Certified Angus Beef column recaps 2025 as a year of tightening cattle supplies, with fed-cattle harvest down about 700,000 head and Mexican feeder imports cut to 229,000 head after the border closure. Prices for all cattle classes rose more than expected.

- Date: 2026-03-01 · published 2026-03-01T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: market · region US · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/20114-prices-weights-and-quality-escalate
- Commodities: [Live Cattle](https://feedsoft.ai/c/LCATTLE.md), [Feeder Cattle](https://feedsoft.ai/c/FCATTLE.md)

## Why it matters

Persistently short supplies of fed and feeder cattle support cattle prices into 2026, and the column describes no new shock.

## Read by commodity

- FCATTLE: bullish ▲
- LCATTLE: bullish ▲

## Sources

- angus.org: https://www.angus.org/angus-media/angus-beef-bulletin/abb-articles/2026/03/prices-weights-quality-escalate

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