Our Purpose
Connecting people and information
Our mission is to provide affordable, high-quality, and useful information, insights, and forward guidance to interested parties concerning economic forces directing changes in the cattle and beef, hog and pork, broiler, turkey, and table egg sectors and macro trends affecting grain markets.
Our Economist
Experienced and confident
Mark Jordan has 15+ years of experience as an agricultural commodity market analyst and serves as Executive Director and Senior Livestock Economist for LEAP Market Analytics. He formerly held a faculty position with Arkansas State University in Jonesboro as an Instructor of Agricultural Economics, teaching numerous courses including Agricultural Business Management, Commodity Futures Markets, and Agricultural Marketing. Mark is called upon frequently to speak on animal protein market trends at conferences, and a few recent examples include: the Delmarva Chicken Association’s 2022 National Meeting on Poultry Health, Processing, and Live Production in Ocean City, MD, WATT Global Media’s 2022 Chicken Marketing Summit in Braselton, GA, and USAPEEC’s Americas Expo 2023 in Medellin, Colombia. He is also a regular contributor to WATTPoultryUSA as author of its Poultry Market Prospects series of articles. Prior to starting LEAP Market Analytics, Mark served as Director of Poultry and Egg Services with Informa Economics (currently S&P Global’s Agribusiness division) where he headed up research and analysis of the broiler, turkey, and egg industries. While there, he developed economic forecasting models for each of the three major poultry categories. Early in his career, Mark served as an agricultural statistician in the Pennsylvania field office of USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service where his duties included survey administration and setting commodity production estimates at the state and county level. He was raised on a beef cattle (cow-calf) and contract broiler operation in rural Arkansas and remains involved with his family’s farm. Mark received a bachelor's degree in Agricultural Business from Arkansas State University and a master's degree in Agricultural Economics from the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville and was recognized as the Outstanding Graduate Student in the Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness Department for the 2003-04 academic year.
