# Beef Prices Soar After Blizzard Clobbers Midwest - Bloomberg

> A weekend blizzard hit the US Midwest and Plains, and a Kansas livestock group estimated it may have killed thousands of animals. Live cattle futures extended a surge to a record and wholesale beef jumped to a 13-month high.

- Date: 2017-05-02 · published 2017-05-02T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: weather · region US · magnitude high
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/7069-beef-prices-soar-after-blizzard-clobbers-midwest-bloomberg
- Commodities: [Live Cattle](https://feedsoft.ai/c/LCATTLE.md), [Feeder Cattle](https://feedsoft.ai/c/FCATTLE.md)

## Why it matters

Animal losses and disrupted deliveries tighten meat supplies, which lifts cattle and beef prices and raises feed demand for cattle operations.

## Read by commodity

- FCATTLE: bullish ▲
- LCATTLE: bullish ▲

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| LCATTLE | 2025-10-30 | [The source of high cattle and beef prices](https://feedsoft.ai/events/22522-the-source-of-high-cattle-and-beef-prices.md) | -3.8% | -8.7% |
| LCATTLE | 2017-05-05 | [Ranchers to the south move snow to save cattle and count deads after a late spring blizzard claims cows, calves \| TSLN.com](https://feedsoft.ai/events/11582-ranchers-to-the-south-move-snow-to-save-cattle-and-count-deads-after-a-late.md) | +0.1% | -3.2% |
| LCATTLE | 2022-07-27 | [Shrinking cattle herd could equal high calf, beef prices](https://feedsoft.ai/events/40435-shrinking-cattle-herd-could-equal-high-calf-beef-prices.md) | -0.6% | +3.8% |
| LCATTLE | 2025-10-22 | [Trump calls for cheaper cattle, more grazing lands in effort to trim beef prices \| Reuters](https://feedsoft.ai/events/6336-trump-calls-for-cheaper-cattle-more-grazing-lands-in-effort-to-trim-beef-prices.md) | -3.8% | -7.9% |
| LCATTLE | 2024-11-11 | [Why beef prices have been rising this fall](https://feedsoft.ai/events/27540-why-beef-prices-have-been-rising-this-fall.md) | -1.1% | +1.4% |
| FCATTLE | 2025-10-30 | [The source of high cattle and beef prices](https://feedsoft.ai/events/22522-the-source-of-high-cattle-and-beef-prices.md) | -6.4% | -9.4% |
| FCATTLE | 2017-05-05 | [Ranchers to the south move snow to save cattle and count deads after a late spring blizzard claims cows, calves \| TSLN.com](https://feedsoft.ai/events/11582-ranchers-to-the-south-move-snow-to-save-cattle-and-count-deads-after-a-late.md) | -4.0% | +7.0% |
| FCATTLE | 2022-07-27 | [Shrinking cattle herd could equal high calf, beef prices](https://feedsoft.ai/events/40435-shrinking-cattle-herd-could-equal-high-calf-beef-prices.md) | +0.4% | +2.0% |

## Sources

- bloomberg.com: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-02/cattle-futures-beef-price-soar-after-blizzard-clobbers-midwest

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