About Ken Maxfield and The Maxfield Report

Ken brings more than twenty years of meat-packing experience to The Maxfield Report and started his career in the cattle hide and leather industry in December 1991, trading cattle hides for the world’s largest meatpacker Iowa Beef Processors (now Tyson Fresh Meats). Ken traded hides for nearly eleven years, progressing to the position of Sales Manager. It was during his time trading hides Ken earned the respect of his colleagues, while obtaining invaluable market and product information regarding cattle hides and leather.

In October of 2002, Ken departed Tyson to pursue a job as a market analyst responsible for reporting on cattle hides and leather for The Jacobsen Publishing Company. Over the course of the next six years, Ken further developed his extensive global network of contacts, while evolving the reports he published into the most widely read reports in the industry. In September of 2008, Ken created The Maxfield Report and it is Ken’s breadth of knowledge of the business and his market contacts, which has allowed him to be considered the world’s leading authority on cattle hide and leather prices.