John Barone

The USDA has given a bearish outlook for near-term beef prices, citing flagging retail demand in the face of high prices and a weak economy.

John T. Barone looks at the challenge of record-high beef and cattle prices

In his weekly column, John T. Barone looks at on-feed and off-feed cattle inventories

John Barone assesses the state of commodities markets

In his weekly Commodities Watch column, John Barone says that decreasing cattle counts will result in record-high beef prices in 2013

In his weekly Commodities Watch column, John T. Barone looks at the problem of high prices and poor quality corn

In his weekly column, John T. Barone finds that more than 62 percent of the contiguous U.S. remains in some form of drought