Friday, August 14th, 2026- Joe Kooima and Brady Huck
Joe Kooima of Kooima Kooima Varilek in Sioux Center, Iowa joins Market Talk on Friday to break down a rough end of the week in the cattle complex after Tyson Foods announced it is closing two beef facilities, including the Joslin, Illinois plant, and looking to sell a third. Joe explains why this round of consolidation does not feel like the last two, what the loss of open interest is telling him about who is left in the cattle market, and why packer margins recovered almost overnight. He also looks at a stagnant hog market, the surprise corn yield cut in Wednesday's WASDE report, and the weather risk building west of the I-29 corridor. Brady Huck of Empower Ag Trading in Kansas also joins Market Talk to unpack a Friday that pulled the cattle and grain markets in opposite directions. On the cattle side, Tyson Foods announced it is closing the Joslin, Illinois plant and a case-ready facility in Utah while looking to sell Pasco, Washington. Brady walks through why the market still lacks conviction, why the boxed beef cutout is the number that has to move first, and what the chuck and the round have to do with any rally. On the grain side the tone flips. A supportive WASDE report, a national corn yield cut, Black Sea headlines and a wheat market making a run at eight dollars have given the bulls multiple stories to work with. Brady lays out what tight world stocks-to-use means going forward, and how producers should think about rewarding this rally without over-committing bushels they may not raise.
