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title: "US Premium Beef Reports Record 2025 Grid Premiums"
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description: "U.S. Premium Beef reported a record fiscal 2025 premium of approximately $108 per head over the Kansas cash market, marking the first time average premiums exceeded $100. This achievement is attributed to record live and carcass weights, enhanced formula allowances, and robust quality-grade premiums, despite a nearly 5% decrease in fed cattle harvest. The average carcass value reached $3,264 per head, with significant grid deliveries totaling 875,238 head across Kansas and Iowa. U.S. Premium Beef focuses on rewarding producers for higher-quality cattle, enhancing the supply chain's efficiency."
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# US Premium Beef Reports Record 2025 Grid Premiums

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US Premium Beef ( (USBBU) ) has shared an update.

On February 13, 2026, U.S. Premium Beef reported that its Kansas grid delivered a record fiscal 2025 premium of about $108 per head over the Kansas cash market, marking the first time average premiums topped $100 and reflecting the strongest grid performance in the company’s history. Record live and carcass weights, enhanced formula allowances, and robust quality-grade premiums drove these results, even as the broader U.S. industry harvested nearly 5% fewer fed cattle than a year earlier and dealt with heavier, fatter carcasses and associated discounts.

USPB highlighted record high average carcass values of $3,264 per head on the Kansas grid, alongside record premiums for the top 25% and 50% of lots and growing use of programs such as electronic ID tags and AngusLink Genetic Merit Scorecard incentives. In Iowa, fiscal 2025 marked the sixth year of grid use at National Beef’s Tama plant, where volumes fell amid tighter Corn Belt supplies but quality grades remained far above industry averages, helping push total USPB grid deliveries across Kansas and Iowa to a record 875,238 head for the year.

**More about US Premium Beef**

U.S. Premium Beef, LLC is a producer-owned beef marketing company that operates value-based carcass grids tied to National Beef Packing plants, primarily in Kansas and Iowa. It focuses on rewarding cattle producers for higher-quality, higher-grading fed cattle, enabling National Beef to source larger volumes of premium beef while aligning incentives across the supply chain.

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