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CME Group, the world's leading derivatives marketplace, announced on June 30, 2026, plans to launch two types of Beef Trim contracts designed to help the agriculture industry manage price risk tied to the key ingredient in hamburger production.
Beef trim — the meat and fat recovered during beef carcass processing — is the primary feedstock for ground beef and hamburgers, yet participants who trade it have lacked a standardized, exchange-cleared instrument to hedge their exposure.
What Beef Trim Is Beef trim is a processing byproduct: after a carcass is broken into primary cuts, the remaining meat and fat is collected and sold to grinding operations, where it is blended into ground beef.
Its price depends on conditions at multiple points in the cattle supply chain — slaughter volumes, relative demand for ground beef, and the balance of lean and fat coming off the fabrication floor — and it can move independently of broader cattle market signals.
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