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The Protein Pulse Podcast delivers concise, commercially focused protein market intelligence for buyers, sellers, traders, procurement leaders, processors, and executives across the beef, pork, chicken, feed, and global protein markets. Each episode translates USDA data, market pricing, slaughter trends, trade flows, imports, feed costs, policy developments, and supply-chain signals into clear, practical market context. The focus is simple: cut through the noise, explain what the numbers mean, and give protein professionals the market context they need before making their next decision. Your Daily Market Update on All Things Protein.Copyright 2026 Shawn Sparks Art Cooking Economics Food & Wine Politics & Government
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  • THE PROTEIN PULSE — DRIVE TIME Monday Market Open | October 19th, 2026

    THE PROTEIN PULSE — DRIVE TIME Monday Market Open | October 19th, 2026
    19 Oct 2026
    THE PROTEIN PULSE — DRIVE TIMEMonday Market Open | October 19th, 2026

    HOST: Protein Pulse Drive Time. Monday Market Open, October 19th. From The Sparks Group.

    SHAWN: It's always easier to paddle with the current than fight your way upstream. But take a look at these markets. We're not dealing with a lazy Sunday float down the river. We're in the middle of some raging rapids, and half the time you can't tell which direction the damn water is running. Everybody's got an opinion about where we're headed. The river doesn't care how smart you think you are, and being right on Monday doesn't mean a damn thing if you're broke by Friday. We can't control the current. But we sure as hell can control the decisions we make while we're in it. Make yours count this week.

    HOST: Cash cattle entered the weekend with Southern bids at two twenty-eight. Choice boxed beef closed at three seventy-two, down one sixty-seven. Select at three fifty-three. Fresh nineties at three ninety-seven F-O-B plant. South American frozen nineties near three oh five at the port. Pork cutout recovered three cents to eighty-one. Chicken breast at one seventeen. Thigh at one seventy-three.

    SHAWN: Two new screwworm cases in New Mexico put Columbus in question. No official reopening date. Don't count those cattle until it's confirmed. Ice Futures is planning competing livestock contracts for December 7th. The real test is liquidity, not the press release. Stay disciplined.

    HOST: Protein Pulse Drive Time. Shawn Sparks, The Sparks Group.

    SHAWN: Stay disciplined.
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  • THE PROTEIN PULSE Monday Market Open | October 19th, 2026

    THE PROTEIN PULSE Monday Market Open | October 19th, 2026
    19 Oct 2026
    THE PROTEIN PULSEMonday Market Open | October 19th, 2026Full Executive Briefing — Spoken ScriptHOST: Welcome to The Protein Pulse Podcast, your daily market update on all things protein. This is Monday Market Open for October 19th, 2026, from The Sparks Group.SHAWN: It's always easier to paddle with the current than fight your way upstream. But take a look at these markets. We're not dealing with a lazy Sunday float down the river. We're in the middle of some raging rapids, and half the time you can't tell which direction the damn water is running. Everybody's got an opinion about where we're headed. Trouble is, the cattle market, the meat counter and the consumer's wallet aren't exactly reading from the same map. So who's going to get smashed against the rocks? Producers? Packers? Consumers? Maybe everybody gets a little wet before this thing settles down. The river doesn't care how smart you think you are, and being right on Monday doesn't mean a damn thing if you're broke by Friday. We can't control the current. But we sure as hell can control the decisions we make while we're in it. Make yours count this week.HOST: Cash cattle strengthened heading into the weekend while Choice boxed beef declined, widening the disconnect between livestock procurement costs and wholesale beef returns. USDA's October outlook identified another important distinction. Domestic cow slaughter remains historically low, yet imported lean beef continues to pressure domestic processing-beef prices. Cattle scarcity is not producing uniform strength throughout the beef complex. The week's most consequential developing supply story is New World screwworm. Two additional cases confirmed in southwestern New Mexico have intensified uncertainty around Columbus, the next anticipated Mexican cattle crossing. No reopening date or official postponement has been confirmed, but the implications for future cattle availability deserve immediate attention. Elsewhere, Friday's pork cutout recovered without resolving weakness in export-sensitive primals. Chicken production continues expanding while individual cuts face different supply conditions. Ice Futures U.S. also announced plans for competing livestock futures contracts, subject to regulatory review. This week opens with several markets sending conflicting signals. Understanding which developments represent actual supply changes, and which are simply price movements, will be essential.SHAWN: The cash-cattle market entered the weekend with Southern packer bids reported at two twenty-eight and feedlot asking prices around two thirty. The Ag Center reported renewed Saturday bids after limited Friday sales. Northern live cattle traded mainly around two twenty-six to two twenty-seven, with dressed transactions reported at three fifty to three fifty-five. Meanwhile, USDA's October 16th afternoon report placed Choice boxed beef at three seventy-two, down one sixty-seven on the day. Select gained forty-three cents to three fifty-three, leaving the Choice Select spread at nineteen cents. That divergence matters for packer economics. Higher cattle acquisition costs are not being accompanied by equivalent gains in finished-beef values. If the relationship persists, it puts additional pressure on processing margins and raises questions about the sustainability of aggressive cattle bids. For downstream buyers, the important distinction is that strong cash cattle does not automatically justify higher offers across every boxed-beef cut. Individual cut demand still determines where pricing power exists. USDA's October 16th Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry Outlook identified a development that challenges the conventional domestic cattle-supply narrative. Federally inspected cow slaughter during January through September was near its lowest level since 1950, with only 2005 lower. Yet domestic cull-cow and nineties prices have weakened as lower-priced imported lean beef competes in the processing market. USDA reported August beef imports of five hundred twenty million pounds, up twenty-six percent year over year. Friday's national fresh F-O-B plant averages placed nineties at three ninety-seven, eighty-fives at two eighty-two and fifties at eighty-seven. The commercial significance is not that domestic cattle supplies have suddenly become abundant. They have not. It is that international beef availability is influencing specific U.S. wholesale markets even as domestic cattle numbers remain constrained. Platts' October 15th market correspondence reported South American frozen nineties indications near three oh five at the U.S. port of entry, while Australian and New Zealand C-I-F East Coast indications were near three thirteen. Those values have different delivery terms and are not directly interchangeable with domestic fresh F-O-B plant quotations. Cattle procurement, boxed-beef merchandising and processing-beef sourcing are facing different pressures. That separation deserves attention as packers enter ...
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  • THE PROTEIN PULSE — DRIVE TIME Closing Bell Friday | October 16th, 2026

    THE PROTEIN PULSE — DRIVE TIME Closing Bell Friday | October 16th, 2026
    16 Oct 2026
    THE PROTEIN PULSE — DRIVE TIMEClosing Bell Friday | October 16th, 2026

    HOST: Protein Pulse Drive Time. Closing Bell Friday, October 16th. From The Sparks Group.

    SHAWN: Friday is when the market starts collecting on Monday's promises. Everybody arrives with an opinion. The cattleman knows what his animals are worth. The packer knows what they cost. The salesman knows what he needs for the beef, and the customer knows what he's willing to pay. Two people can look at the same load of meat and see two entirely different markets. By Friday, I don't care who sounded smartest on Monday. I want to know who recognized what was changing while there was still time to act. The fellow who saw it coming usually doesn't need nearly as many words.

    HOST: December live cattle settled at two twenty-seven twenty-five, up two twelve. Choice fell two fifty-two to three seventy-three ninety-eight. Select lost five eighty-five to three fifty-two sixty-two. Imported frozen nineties were assessed at three thirteen C-I-F East Coast. Domestic fresh eighty-fives averaged three sixteen. Different product. Not a direct comparison. Pork cutout lost one ninety to seventy-seven fifty-five. Ribs fell thirteen eighty-nine. Hog base rose two fifty-six to seventy-one seventy.

    SHAWN: China is showing up with chicken at somebody else's table. Buyers with qualified international suppliers should be asking for fresh offers. December corn settled at four seventy-eight. Meal at three fifty-nine eighty. Ultra-Low Sulfur Diesel futures fell eight cents to four eighty-five. A supplier doesn't have to be wrong about its costs for a buyer to be right about the price. Stay disciplined.

    HOST: Protein Pulse Drive Time. Shawn Sparks, The Sparks Group.

    SHAWN: Stay disciplined.
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