THE PROTEIN PULSE — DRIVE TIME

Monday Market Open | November 2nd, 2026

HOST: Protein Pulse Drive Time. Monday Market Open, November 2nd. From The Sparks Group.

SHAWN: If you're reading this, odds are high you're already packing a bag for Scottsdale, or reading it over breakfast at The Westin Kierland. The Meat Import Council of America's sixty-fifth Annual Conference isn't a passive event for our industry. It's where real business happens. While formal market reports show where trade ended up last quarter, the real intelligence comes from the conversations in between sessions, the unvarnished ground truth on import volumes, cold chain pressure points, and shifting margin realities. When you're constantly evaluating risk and securing supply, getting direct face time with peers on the same side of the trade is invaluable. Plus, doing it under a Sonoran sunset with a round of golf on the side isn't a bad way to wrap up the year. I'll be on-site throughout the event. If you want to talk strategy, test assumptions on where global markets are heading, or grab a drink, let's connect. Ask me for some Protein Pulse Swag while they last. Track me down in the hallway and let's talk real market reality.

HOST: Choice grade cutout at three sixty-four sixty-six, down two sixty-two. Pork cutout at seventy ten. December live cattle at two twenty ninety-five, down five thirty-five. Imported nineties at three nineteen C-I-F. Domestic nineties at three seventy-one F-O-B. West Texas Crude at one oh two fifty-six. Ultra-Low Sulfur Diesel at four sixty-eight.

SHAWN: CBP opened the third one hundred thousand metric ton beef quota tranche. Mexico reopens poultry from eligible Brazilian origins. The numbers in a report establish the starting point. The terms someone will actually honor determine the deal. Stay disciplined.

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

SHAWN: Stay disciplined.