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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 Ekonomia Gotowanie Jedzenie i wino Polityka i rządy Sztuka
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  • THE PROTEIN PULSE — DRIVE TIME Thursday Margin Monitor | October 22nd, 2026

    THE PROTEIN PULSE — DRIVE TIME Thursday Margin Monitor | October 22nd, 2026
    Oct 22 2026
    THE PROTEIN PULSE — DRIVE TIMEThursday Margin Monitor | October 22nd, 2026

    HOST: Protein Pulse Drive Time. Thursday Margin Monitor, October 22nd. From The Sparks Group.

    SHAWN: I don't care how strong the rib is if the rest of the carcass isn't pulling its weight. That's where I think this beef market is getting tested. Cattle remain scarce. That is real. But scarcity doesn't force a restaurant to keep a steak on the menu, a retailer to feature the same cut, or a grinder to ignore imported lean. Customers have choices, and they're using them. Look at pork. Bellies just took a hard hit. Chicken production is expanding. Both are competing for the same food dollar while beef packers are trying to protect the value of every animal they harvest. You can't buy the headline and hope the customer follows. You have to know which product will move, what it really costs you, and how long you'll own it. The profit is in the decision, not the prediction.

    HOST: Choice closed at three seventy-two fifty-nine, down seventy-one cents. Select fell six twenty to three fifty-five thirty-four. Fresh nineties at three eighty-five F-O-B. Pork cutout at seventy-four fifty, down four oh three. Bellies at seventy-seven sixty-six. Chicken breast at one seventeen. Diesel at six twenty-eight.

    SHAWN: Kayem is recalling about one point five eight million pounds. Texas confirmed screwworm in an elk in Pecos County. Brazil faces new poultry restrictions. Margin is determined by actual product economics, not the headline. Stay disciplined.

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

    SHAWN: Stay disciplined.
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  • THE PROTEIN PULSE Thursday Margin Monitor | October 22nd, 2026

    THE PROTEIN PULSE Thursday Margin Monitor | October 22nd, 2026
    Oct 22 2026
    THE PROTEIN PULSEThursday Margin Monitor | October 22nd, 2026Full Executive Briefing — Spoken ScriptHOST: Welcome to The Protein Pulse Podcast, your daily market update on all things protein. This is Thursday Margin Monitor for October 22nd, 2026, from The Sparks Group.SHAWN: I don't care how strong the rib is if the rest of the carcass isn't pulling its weight. That's where I think this beef market is getting tested. Cattle remain scarce. That is real. But scarcity doesn't force a restaurant to keep a steak on the menu, a retailer to feature the same cut, or a grinder to ignore imported lean. Customers have choices, and they're using them. Look at pork. Bellies just took a hard hit. Chicken production is expanding. Both are competing for the same food dollar while beef packers are trying to protect the value of every animal they harvest. To me, this is where experience matters. You can't buy the headline and hope the customer follows. You have to know which product will move, what it really costs you, and how long you'll own it. The profit is in the decision, not the prediction.HOST: A nationwide ready-to-eat meat and poultry recall has exposed a warehouse cold-chain failure, with affected product shipped to retail and foodservice customers. Restaurant performance also offers a revealing contrast. LongHorn Steakhouse gained guests while Olive Garden lost traffic. Meanwhile, Hormel is moving to expand in value-added chicken as wholesale beef and pork values diverge. Animal health and trade remain consequential. A Texas screwworm detection raises regional livestock-movement questions, while Brazil faces new poultry restrictions in some markets even as the European Union considers restoring access for Brazilian poultry. Across the industry, the bigger picture is clear. Food safety, shifting consumer demand, changing trade relationships and uneven protein markets are creating new challenges and opportunities for businesses throughout the supply chain.SHAWN: The October 21st afternoon Choice cutout closed at three seventy-two fifty-nine, down seventy-one cents. Select fell six twenty to three fifty-five thirty-four, widening the Choice Select spread to seventeen twenty-five. Grade-flexible buyers should revisit offers. Choice heavy boneless ribeyes averaged fifteen fifty-four, while blended steer heifer cow-source eighty-one percent ground beef stood at three forty-five. Demand remains uneven across cuts. Grinding beef requires separate calculations. National fresh nineties averaged three eighty-five, eighty-fives three eighteen and fifties eighty-four. Grinders must evaluate formulation yields, origin, freight, storage and handling before switching supply. The five-area live F-O-B steer average for the week ended October 18th was two twenty-four nineteen. Wednesday cattle slaughter was estimated at one hundred ten thousand head, bringing the week-to-date total to three hundred twenty-seven thousand. Sterling estimates packer margins at positive one hundred fifty-five oh six per head and feedlot margins at negative two hundred forty-four seventy per head. Those are modeled results, not actual company earnings. December live cattle futures settled at two thirty-one thirteen, up ninety-five cents, while October feeder cattle reached three forty-seven eighty-three, up one ninety-three, on October 21st. Replacement costs remain firm despite wholesale weakness. In results released September 24th for the fiscal quarter ended August 30th, LongHorn Steakhouse posted six point two percent same-restaurant sales growth, including one point six percent higher guest counts and a four point five percent larger average check. Olive Garden increased same-restaurant sales one point one percent, but guest counts declined two point two percent while the average check rose three point four percent. The difference matters. Some diners are still choosing steak while other restaurant formats depend more on pricing than additional visits.HOST: The October 21st pork cutout dropped four oh three to seventy-four fifty. Bellies fell twelve oh one to seventy-seven sixty-six. Picnics declined nine seventeen to fifty-five fifty-one. Butts eased just forty-six cents to one oh two sixty-two. For bacon processors, the belly break creates negotiating leverage. For butt buyers, the same broad concession is not supported. Purchasing decisions should follow primal specifications, shipment timing and actual customer commitments. For October 9th to 15th, pork net export sales totaled thirty-seven thousand five hundred metric tons, up three percent from the previous week. Mexico, South Korea and China led the commitments. Physical exports totaled thirty-two thousand seven hundred metric tons. Export commitments temper the belly signal without proving wider demand strength. Wednesday hog slaughter was estimated at four hundred ninety-five thousand head, bringing the week-to-date count to one point four five nine million. Sterling estimates ...
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  • THE PROTEIN PULSE — DRIVE TIME Wednesday Watchlist | October 21st, 2026

    THE PROTEIN PULSE — DRIVE TIME Wednesday Watchlist | October 21st, 2026
    Oct 21 2026
    THE PROTEIN PULSE — DRIVE TIMEWednesday Watchlist | October 21st, 2026

    HOST: Protein Pulse Drive Time. Wednesday Watchlist, October 21st. From The Sparks Group.

    SHAWN: Everybody wants to talk about opening more crossings for Mexican cattle. That's worth watching, but opening a gate doesn't put finished cattle on the rail tomorrow. USDA is moving toward additional cattle-entry points while Washington considers incentives to retain breeding heifers. One could expand feeder availability. The other could keep more females out of the immediate beef pipeline. Meanwhile, imported lean is telling its own story. Domestic cow slaughter is down, but imported trimming values have been under pressure. More than one supply channel determines what processors actually pay. Price the cattle available, not the cattle promised.

    HOST: Choice advanced one seventy-two to three seventy-three thirty. Select rose one sixty-three to three sixty-one fifty-four. Imported frozen nineties at three thirteen C-I-F East Coast. Pork cutout at seventy-eight fifty-three, down eighty-six cents. Bellies at eighty-nine sixty-seven. Chicken breast at one seventeen. Thigh at one seventy-three.

    SHAWN: Columbus is scheduled to reopen October 26th. Nogales is conditionally targeted for November 30th. Australia has hit its reported annual beef-import quota. Kayem is recalling about one point five eight million pounds. Margin is determined by actual product economics, not the headline direction of the market. Stay disciplined.

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

    SHAWN: Stay disciplined.
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