We Live It | LiveAg's Livestock Marketing Podcast
Jul 2, 2026 · 34 min · 13 segments
What does a career in cattle feeding actually look like? How can women build successful careers in agriculture and livestock production? What drives cattle markets, beef demand, and the business…
Emily JacksonGuest
Ty deCordovaHost
Casey MabryHost
So what are some challenges you're seeing today, Emily? I know that obviously with the border shut down, we had the issues that we've seen lately from a screw worm and what that's going to do, obviously.
Has that changed your procurement, what you guys need to do? I know you don't necessarily have to buy cattle each and every day, but I'm guessing you got investors that have money that want to continue to move that into different capacities.
say in terms of the just to get it out there for the screw worm like I'm still gonna buy cattle in Texas that's not an issue for me so And I don't think it's a food safety issue.
I think that the market has kind of like baked a lot of it in because we have had so many rumors and it's here, it's not here.
And I think for the most part, like we've all known it's coming, right? So do I think that it's possibly going to have an impact on an already hurting supply? Maybe.
Um, and that's, what's the biggest issue for me right now is the supply, right? And prices are so elevated and I either need live cattle to rally up to meet those feeder cattle prices, or I need those feeder prices to come down.
Um, again, I'm trying to seek value and other things that maybe I wouldn't normally look at, like maybe I'll feed a cow, um, like a literal cow.
feeding cow um and honestly like our Wagyu programs have been growing a lot and so for the first time uh we have more Wagyu on feed than we do conventional cattle um so that's just like what's a struggle for me right now it's just hard to buy much in sale barns right now just because the supply is so tight
And to build a database like that and to be able to pick what you want to do because of that data is pretty neat.
Well, and also what's cool is because I keep track of everything, like I'll buy cattle off of live ag, right? And then they kill and I see the closeout data and I'm like, wow, these things did way better than I thought.
A, because when I'm buying a lot of things on video sales, like A lot of times I haven't bought them before.
And they're going to perform better than something coming out of an auction where I'm just like, it's a game of averages at that point because you're commingling them from so many different places.
Usually when they're from one producer, you can bank that they're going to do a little bit better.
But it's nice because then I can text you, Ty, and be like, hey, remember these cattle from this producer? Make sure that I'm on those.
So what are some challenges you're seeing today, Emily? I know that obviously with the border shut down, we had the issues that we've seen lately from a screw worm and what that's going to do, obviously.
Has that changed your procurement, what you guys need to do? I know you don't necessarily have to buy cattle each and every day, but I'm guessing you got investors that have money that want to continue to move that into different capacities.
say in terms of the just to get it out there for the screw worm like I'm still gonna buy cattle in Texas that's not an issue for me so And I don't think it's a food safety issue.
I think that the market has kind of like baked a lot of it in because we have had so many rumors and it's here, it's not here.
And I think for the most part, like we've all known it's coming, right? So do I think that it's possibly going to have an impact on an already hurting supply? Maybe.
Um, and that's, what's the biggest issue for me right now is the supply, right? And prices are so elevated and I either need live cattle to rally up to meet those feeder cattle prices, or I need those feeder prices to come down.
Um, again, I'm trying to seek value and other things that maybe I wouldn't normally look at, like maybe I'll feed a cow, um, like a literal cow.
feeding cow um and honestly like our Wagyu programs have been growing a lot and so for the first time uh we have more Wagyu on feed than we do conventional cattle um so that's just like what's a struggle for me right now it's just hard to buy much in sale barns right now just because the supply is so tight
And to build a database like that and to be able to pick what you want to do because of that data is pretty neat.
Well, and also what's cool is because I keep track of everything, like I'll buy cattle off of live ag, right? And then they kill and I see the closeout data and I'm like, wow, these things did way better than I thought.
A, because when I'm buying a lot of things on video sales, like A lot of times I haven't bought them before.
And they're going to perform better than something coming out of an auction where I'm just like, it's a game of averages at that point because you're commingling them from so many different places.
Usually when they're from one producer, you can bank that they're going to do a little bit better.
But it's nice because then I can text you, Ty, and be like, hey, remember these cattle from this producer? Make sure that I'm on those.
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