Getting Started with EMEAT

Your Quick Guide to Meat Market Data, Price Forecasts & Industry Insights

Welcome to EMEAT, a market intelligence platform designed for professionals across the beef, pork, poultry, and livestock industries.

Whether you're tracking meat prices, analyzing supply and demand trends, monitoring packer margins, or evaluating price forecasts, EMEAT provides the data and tools needed to make more informed decisions.

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Start exploring today and gain access to market prices, historical data, forecasts, trade statistics, and industry insights in one place.

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Dashboard

The Dashboard provides a personalized snapshot of the information most relevant to your business.

Here you can:

• View your selected market indicators
• Download the latest Weekly Commodity Recap
• Monitor upcoming industry events
• Access your saved shortcuts

Personalize Your Data

Customize EMEAT based on the markets and data you follow most.

You can:

• Select Meat Prices, Livestock Prices, and Meat Production indicators
• Display them directly on your Dashboard
• Create shortcuts to frequently used charts and tables
• Receive personalized Daily Bulletin emails
• Configure Meat Price Alerts
• Access the Weekly Commodity Recap featuring our 8-week forecasts

Go to Personalization

Tables

The Tables section provides access to the latest meat market prices and industry data in a structured, easy-to-navigate format.

Using built-in filters and sorting tools, you can quickly narrow down information by product, cut, grade, market category, reporting period, and other key attributes.

Key features include:

• Access to current USDA and industry market data
• Advanced filtering for faster data discovery
• Sorting by prices, volumes, dates, and market indicators
• Direct navigation to specific cuts, primals, sub-primals, and commodities
• Quick access to detailed market information before moving into chart analysis

Whether you're tracking boxed beef prices, pork cuts, livestock markets, production data, or trade statistics, the Tables section helps you find the exact information you need in just a few clicks.

Charts with Historical Data

EMEAT provides up to 6 years of historical meat market data through interactive charts designed to help users identify trends, seasonality, price cycles, and market opportunities.

Visualize market performance across multiple years, compare current prices against historical patterns, and analyze forecasts using intuitive charting tools.

Within the Charts section, you can:

• Compare: Analyze up to 5 data series simultaneously.
• Histogram: Visualize historical price distributions to better understand typical trading ranges and market volatility.
• Forecast Details & Accuracy: Review forecast methodology and historical forecast performance.
• Side Table: Compare current values against historical averages and weekly trends.
• Excel Download: Export data for reporting and further analysis.

Price Forecast

The Price Forecast section helps users anticipate future market movements using historical relationships and livestock futures markets.

Here you can:

• Analyze historical meat price trends
• Access EMEAT's 8-week price forecasts
• Monitor forecast ratios and futures prices
• Build custom projections using Personalized Forecast

This tool is especially useful for buyers, sellers, processors, and risk management teams seeking greater visibility into future market conditions. You can find the Price Forecast tools in: Data & Prices → Meat Prices → Historical Prices & Fcst (Charts).

Go to Beef Forecasts or Pork Forecasts

Premium Feature: only available for users with Advanced Analytics suite.

Weekly Retail Beef Prices

Located within the Data & Prices section, the Weekly Retail Beef Prices feature provides visibility into U.S. retail beef pricing and merchandising activity across major supermarket markets.

Track weekly average retail prices while monitoring changes in product availability, store penetration, and promotional activity.

Key capabilities include:

• Analyze retail beef prices by cut, primal, grade, and production attributes
• Compare performance across regions and market segments
• Monitor the number of stores carrying specific products
• Measure changes versus the previous week (PW) and previous year (PY)
• Identify retail pricing trends and demand shifts across the U.S. market

This tool helps processors, retailers, distributors, and market analysts better understand retail market conditions and consumer-facing price movements.

Go to Weekly Retail Beef Prices

Premium Feature: Available exclusively to Premium users.

Import & Export Data

The Import & Export Data section provides comprehensive U.S. meat trade intelligence, helping users monitor import and export activity, evaluate global supply and demand dynamics, and identify market trends that may influence domestic prices.

Analyze trade flows across beef and pork using interactive charts and historical datasets sourced from official government trade statistics. You can find the feature in: Data & Prices → Supply & Demand Data.

Available analysis views include:

• Weekly Analysis
• Monthly Analysis
• Top 5 Trading Countries
• Global Overview
• Custom Country Comparisons

Premium Feature: Available exclusively to Premium users.

Packer Margins

Our Packer Margins tool helps users estimate beef and pork packer margins using current and historical market data.

Monitor key drivers such as cutout values, livestock costs, carcass weights, by-product values, and estimated gross margins to better understand meat industry profitability and changing market conditions. Located in: Data & Prices → Gross Packer Margins.

Key benefits include:

• Access to up to 6 years of historical data
• Improved visibility into market trends and patterns
• More accurate gross margin estimations
• Better planning support for business decisions

Go to Cattle or Swine Packer Margins

Premium Feature: only available for users with Advanced Analytics suite.

Need Help? Schedule a Demo

If you have any questions or would like a personalized walkthrough of the platform, we’re happy to help. Our team can help you:

• Navigate the platform
• Configure personalized reports and alerts
• Understand forecasts and market analytics
• Identify the tools most relevant to your business

You can contact us anytime to schedule a demo based on your availability.

Or, if you're not yet a user:

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The meat market moves quickly. Stay informed with the data, forecasts, and insights trusted by industry professionals.