Market Update with Kurt Kangas | Summer 2026

I should specify, too, I am not an expert.

I'm an observer.

That's important.

So I've been to I work with Western Livestock Video Auction and I work with Northern Livestock Video Auction.

I go to both those guys at sales.

I'll go to some cattle country sale, cattle country video sales when when I'm around.

So I get to a lot of these video sales.

And if I'm not if I'm not at a video sale, I generally watch the video sales pretty closely, particularly when they're selling this region's cattle, just to keep up with the markets and see how our producers, our commercial producers have done in the season.

And it's been a it's a great insight into cattle.

people's mentality on how they're thinking.

It greatly influences, obviously, our fall bull sale seasons from a registered perspective.

It's also a connection point for talking about different programs with Angus is we're at these video sales and people have questions and video sales are pretty busy and we're pretty busy during video sales, helping the auctions, auction market and those companies run the sales.

But at the same time, I get a lot of calls after sales with people asking questions about how you know, what does this program do? What does this program do? I used to do a lot of audits when we had the NHC Never Ever claims that we'd run.

And I really enjoyed doing those audits and got a good connection.

And so I understand the programs very well.

So the people really kind of value my opinion on what to do on program cattle and stuff like that.

That being said...

The summer video sales that I've been to, I've been to obviously all the northern sales and the western video market.

And it's been an interesting year to watch, obviously.

There's been a little more volatility in this summer than there was last summer where we saw that constant run up on cattle all the way through the cycle.

This time, June was a really, really good market.

Heifers were probably a little soft then and a good buy.

Heifers have come up.

or haven't lost as much ground as the steers have since the June market.

And it's looking like, obviously, the board is not helping out.