Alpha Current / USDA fundamentals

Boxed Beef Decision Center

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Aligned current, weekly, and 30-day comparison

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What actually moved the cutout

Ranked by USDA-yield-weighted contribution, not by the largest raw primal price move.

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Percent shares are descriptive context. Offsetting contributions are shown separately and are not forced to sum to 100%.

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Movement, trimmings, cross-protein value, and packer economics remain separate from USDA-reported cutout values.

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Live Cattle futures context

Fixed contracts and their own comparison dates. Same-window alignment is not evidence that boxed beef caused the move.

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Tuesday history snapshot

A weekly sampling of USDA daily PM finals

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USDA does not publish a separate Tuesday cutout report. Each Tuesday point is the actual LM_XB403 daily PM final published on that Tuesday. This series never overwrites the latest daily boxed-beef card.

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Source, freshness, and method

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