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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
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  • THE PROTEIN PULSE — DRIVE TIME Taco Meat Tuesday | October 20th, 2026

    THE PROTEIN PULSE — DRIVE TIME Taco Meat Tuesday | October 20th, 2026
    Oct 20 2026
    THE PROTEIN PULSE — DRIVE TIMETaco Meat Tuesday | October 20th, 2026

    HOST: Protein Pulse Drive Time. Taco Meat Tuesday, October 20th. From The Sparks Group.

    SHAWN: Here's what caught my attention Monday. Cattle cost more, processors ran more head, and Choice beef still lost ground. Select went the other direction. That's a difficult combination to manage. Packers have more product to sell, but higher cattle costs don't disappear because a customer refuses an offer. Pork is presenting a similar challenge. Bellies and hams weakened even with fewer hogs processed last week. In chicken, breasts and thighs are moving in opposite directions. The next change in buying leverage won't arrive evenly. It will show up in particular products, from particular suppliers, for particular delivery dates. I want to know who's holding the pounds, who's buying them, and how long each side can wait. That's where the next negotiation gets interesting.

    HOST: Choice closed at three seventy-one fifty-eight, down seventy-three cents. Select gained six eighty-six to three fifty-nine ninety-one. Fresh nineties at three ninety F-O-B plant. Imported frozen nineties at three thirteen C-I-F East Coast. Pork cutout at seventy-nine thirty-nine. Bellies at eighty-six ninety-three. Chicken breast at one seventeen. Thigh at one seventy-three.

    SHAWN: Brazil confirmed Newcastle disease in Santa Catarina turkeys. Mexico suspended poultry imports from Brazil. Kayem is recalling about one point five million pounds of ready-to-eat product. Two more screwworm cases in New Mexico. Stay disciplined.

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

    SHAWN: Stay disciplined.
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    2 min
  • THE PROTEIN PULSE Taco Meat Tuesday | October 20th, 2026

    THE PROTEIN PULSE Taco Meat Tuesday | October 20th, 2026
    Oct 20 2026
    THE PROTEIN PULSETaco Meat Tuesday | October 20th, 2026Full Executive Briefing — Spoken ScriptHOST: Welcome to The Protein Pulse Podcast, your daily market update on all things protein. This is Taco Meat Tuesday for October 20th, 2026, from The Sparks Group.SHAWN: Here's what caught my attention Monday. Cattle cost more, processors ran more head, and Choice beef still lost ground. Select went the other direction. That's a difficult combination to manage. Packers have more product to sell, but higher cattle costs don't disappear because a customer refuses an offer. Pork is presenting a similar challenge. Bellies and hams weakened even with fewer hogs processed last week. In chicken, breasts and thighs are moving in opposite directions. Overseas, suppliers are competing for customers in markets that don't necessarily want the same products. None of those developments means the entire protein market is getting cheaper. They tell me something more useful. The next change in buying leverage won't arrive evenly. It will show up in particular products, from particular suppliers, for particular delivery dates. I want to know who's holding the pounds, who's buying them, and how long each side can wait. That's where the next negotiation gets interesting.HOST: Brazil has confirmed Newcastle disease at a commercial turkey operation in Santa Catarina, triggering reported trade responses from important poultry customers. Separately, Reuters reports Chinese chicken exporters challenging established suppliers across several international markets. USDA FSIS announced a major Kayem ready-to-eat meat and poultry recall following a storage-temperature problem. New Mexico confirmed additional New World screwworm cases, keeping livestock surveillance and border-movement requirements in focus. In domestic markets, cash cattle prices strengthened while Choice boxed beef declined and Select advanced. Pork bellies and picnics weakened, and chicken breasts and thighs moved in opposite directions. U.S. pork export demand remains uneven by destination, while corn harvest progress trails historical levels.SHAWN: USDA's latest five-area negotiated live F-O-B steer average reached two twenty-four nineteen, up from two twenty fourteen the previous reporting week. Dressed delivered steers advanced to three fifty-two fifty-two from three forty-five sixty-six. Choice boxed beef declined seventy-three cents to three seventy-one fifty-eight. Select gained six eighty-six to three fifty-nine ninety-one. The Choice Select spread narrowed to eleven sixty-seven. Choice ribs remained at six seventy-three fifty-nine. Steiner Consulting's latest Daily Livestock Report described strong seasonal rib demand as holiday buyers accumulated inventory. Its report also described improved packer margins following difficult summer conditions. Estimated cattle slaughter increased to five hundred fifty-three thousand head for the week ended October 17th, compared with five hundred thirty-five thousand the preceding week. The additional volume comes against a backdrop of reduced industry processing capacity and continued constraints on cattle supplies. Manufacturing beef moved differently from the boxed-beef grade market. USDA's national fresh F-O-B plant averages put nineties at three ninety, down six seventy, and eighty-fives at three sixteen, up thirty-five. Fresh fifties averaged ninety and sixty-fives one fifty-two. Imported frozen lean remains a separate sourcing market. Platts' October 16th frozen nineties assessments were three thirteen C-I-F U.S. East Coast and three oh five F-C-A East Coast. Those port assessments differ in product condition and delivery basis from domestic fresh F-O-B plant quotations.HOST: Brazilian Agriculture Minister André de Paula confirmed a Newcastle disease outbreak at a commercial turkey farm in Santa Catarina. Authorities initiated containment measures and restrictions on bird movements around the affected operation. Reuters reported that Mexico suspended poultry imports from Brazil and that Brazilian industry association ABPA voluntarily halted exports to China pending clarification of trade requirements. The precise product and geographic scope of those measures remains subject to official destination-country documentation. The outbreak is an immediate export-access development for Brazil, a leading poultry supplier. The critical questions are whether restrictions remain localized, how quickly the outbreak is contained and when affected trade can resume. Separately, Reuters reported that Chinese poultry processors are increasing exports through competitive pricing and expanded processing capacity. An international trader described Chinese breast and leg-quarter offers ten to twenty percent below Brazilian alternatives in selected African markets. Chinese processors are also competing in European processed-poultry markets. The reported overseas quotations are not U.S. domestic chicken prices. Actual international order ...
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    11 min
  • THE PROTEIN PULSE — DRIVE TIME Monday Market Open | October 19th, 2026

    THE PROTEIN PULSE — DRIVE TIME Monday Market Open | October 19th, 2026
    Oct 19 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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    2 min
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