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Canadian Feedlot and Cattle Market Analysis Overview
The Canadian Feedlot and Cattle Market Analysis is a weekly detailed examination of markets influencing the feedlot operator and cattle producer.
The weekly analysis includes fundamental and technical analysis for fed cattle, feeder cattle, feed grains and the Canadian dollar. At the end of each section, there is analysis of the Commitment of Traders Report along with price forecasts and recommendations for reach commodity. The analysis is about 20 pages long with detailed commentary, charts and graphs.
Subscribers can call anytime to discuss the markets to enhance confidence when making decisions. The one-on-one personal contact enhances confidence when making decisions.
Feedlot operators and cattle producers in general, cannot be all things, all the time when managing their feedlot or cattle operations. They don't have time to fully analyze all the market. Subscribing to the market analysis is like having a personal analyst at your fingertips.
This analysis is for finishing feedlots, backgrounding operators and cow calf producers. The time of sales is crucial for long term profitability. The analysis is usually sent out on Friday evenings or Saturday mornings.
Mastermind Group
In his book "Think and Grow Rich" Napoleon Hill described the Mastermind principle as "The coordination of knowledge and effort between two or more people who work towards a definite purpose in a spirit of harmony". This combination of two or more minds creates a third mind know as the "Mastermind". Just like two batteries are twice as powerful as one battery, so are two minds twice as powerful as one mind. When a cattle producer subscribes to the Canadian Feedlot and Cattle Market Analysis, he joins a "Mastermind Group" of cattle producers. He has access to wisdom through an invisible, intangible force which is likened to a third mind.
Jerry's Journey
Education and Professional Career
Gerald (Jerry) Klassen has been studying markets since he was a young boy growing up on a farm in Southern Alberta. Sugar beets, grains, finished cattle, feeder cattle were moving on and off the farm. He wondered how do two people agree to the price? How is the price discovered? Who determines this price and why?
After graduating from the University of Alberta with a Bachelors of Science in Agriculture and Food Business Managment, he started in the grain trade with a multinational working up from an elevator assistant to international grain merchant.
After a brief period as a local on the Winnipeg Commodity Exchange, he returned to his career as an international grain merchant until 2020. From 2005 through 2008 he worked for a Canadian grain merchant. From 2009 through 2019, he managed Canadian operations for a Swiss based grain trading house.
Jerry Klassen has over 25 years of actual commodity trading experience. From 2017- 2021, he was Chairman of the Canadian Grain and Oilseed Exporters Association.
Although his career was in the grain trade, Jerry has always provided market analysis for cattle producers. He has written for Cattleman Magazine
and Grainews for over 20 years. He has been quoted in the National Post, Reuters, and other media sources. Jerry has always had a passion for cattle feeding and the cattle market. A farmer at heart, Jerry has seven quarters growing canola, wheat and barley.
History
After the recession of 2008 and 2009, feedlot operators felt they were blind-sided by an economic event that caused major equity erosion. Secondly, they wanted market analysis to be as intelligent as the beef packer or the multinational on the other side of their cash transaction.
Producers were looking for in-depth market analysis to enhance their risk management and marketing of fed cattle and purchases of feeder cattle. These producers also wanted advice on when to purchase their feed grains and hedging the Canadian dollar. They needed price forecasts and risk management recommendations for fed cattle, feeder cattle, feed grains and the Canadian dollar.
A group of feedlot operators approached Jerry Klassen to analyze markets for them. After four or five meetings, the “Canadian Feedlot and Cattle Market Analysis” came into existence.
Beef demand is inelastic; a small change in supply has a large influence on the price. Knowing how many cattle will be ready for processing in a specific month is crucial to marketing fed and feeder cattle and the overall risk management strategy. Beef demand and consumer spending are highly correlated. Cattle producers are in pure competitive market. Numerous studies show that in the long run, average cattle feeding margins are negative. Market intelligence is needed to ensure profitability over an extended period of time.
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To subscribe, please fill out the following form and you will receive an invoice by email. If you wish to pay by credit card, please indicate that using the drop down below. For larger companies such as banks, accounting firms, and businesses associated with the cattle feeding industry, please call in for pricing to distribute throughout your company.With just $1,200 CAD per year, you will get exclusive access to the best Cattle Market Analysis in the business which includes:
- Weekly detailed market examination
- Weekly fundamental and technical analysis for fed cattle, feed grains, feeder cattle and the Canadian dollar
- Call-anytime market discussion plus one-on-one personal contact that enhances confidence when making decisions.
- Personal analyst at your fingertips
- Long term profitability, timing-of-sales analysis and many more!