Not to be a Debbie Downer, but read and understand the thread below about the Stein market at present.  It is an education lesson second to none.  We are in a phase of the cattle market where we have excess pen space and increasing supply of all meats. Eb and flow of the general-world economy very important also.  Lots of money and equity has been removed from the beef industry in the last few years. The repercussions of that are still evolving.  Yet to be written. Lots of twist and turns for all of Agriculture could easy be a good time to just tread water.