Lingering uncertainty about the Trump administration’s beef sector plans and prospects for reopening the border to Mexican cattle have fueled volatility in cattle prices without lowering beef prices in the grocery store. 

This week on Cattle Call, market analyst Brad Kooima of Kooima, K0oima & Varilek in Sioux Center, Iowa, joined host Chad Moyer to break down the widening gap between the northern and southern cattle markets.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that his administration was working to lower the price of beef in the country.