Steve Kay

Steve Kay is editor and publisher of Cattle Buyers Weekly (www.cattlebuyersweekly.com ) subscription newsletter, the number-one marketing and business newsletter for the meat and livestock industry. He provides BEEF readers with beef-specific information and analysis on the North American meat and livestock industry. He also provides a weekly cattle market roundup each Friday afternoon at beefmagazine.com.

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Steve’s Recent activity

Anatomy of a cattle market collapse

Oct 29, 2015

The live cattle and wholesale beef markets were still reeling in early October after a historic late-summer collapse that saw cattle prices fall 22% in eight weeks. However, the seeds of the collapse were sown nearly...

Are packing plants on the endangered species list?

Oct 05, 2015

Meat plants used to be a key part of the economy of hundreds of rural towns and several large Midwest cities. But the structure of the beef industry began to change radically in the 1960s, after brand-new company IBP...