****TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 2022 ~ VOL. CCLXXIX NO. 66WSJ.comHHHH$5.00DJIA34552.99g201.94 0.6%NASDAQ13838.46g0.4%STOXX 600454.79À0.04%10-YR. TREAS.g1 15/32 , yield 2.315%OIL$112.12À$7.42GOLD$1,928.60À$0.40EURO$1.1017YEN119.48Want to See‘Scream’Or ‘Scream’?iiiHollywood lovessequels so muchtitles don’t changeBYCHRISKORNELISRyan Showers says whenthe name of the latest install-ment in the horror franchise“Scream” was announced, itcreated a wave of controversyin the movies’ fanbase. Unlikeprevious sequels that had beennamed “Scream 2” and“Scream 3,” and “Scream 4,”the new film, released in Janu-ary, was called “Scream.”That’s the same title as the1996 original.“Scream fans have a veryset mindset in terms of whatto expect,” says Mr. Showers,a law student at Penn State,who hosts a podcast dedicatedto the franchise.Please turn to page A12For years, many ranchershave blamed meatpacking gi-ants for low cattle prices.Now, some cattlemen saythey have a solution: Processthe beef themselves.On 80 acres in westernNebraska, a group of cattleranchers and feedlot ownersthis spring plans to breakground on a $325 millionprocessing plant they saywill boost competition—andlivestock prices—in one ofthe country’s top beef-pro-ducing regions.The venture, SustainableBeef LLC, comes as rancherssay they have struggledagainst years of low cattleprices, most recently despitethe rise of wholesale beefprices over the pandemic.BYMATTHEWLUXMOOREANDALANCULLISONFederal Reserve ChairmanJerome Powell said the centralbank was prepared to raise in-terest rates in half-percentage-point steps and high enoughto slow the economy if it con-cluded such steps were war-ranted to bring down inflation.“If we think it’s appropriateto raise [by a half point] at ameeting or meetings, we willdo so,” Mr. Powell said duringa discussion after a speech onMonday before the NationalAssociation for Business Eco-nomics in Washington.Mr. Powell’s remarks strucka tougher tone than he useddays earlier in a news confer-ence after the Fed voted toraise its benchmark rate by aThe average price for livecattlewasup5%in2021from 2019, according to fig-ures from the Livestock Mar-keting Information Centerand Agriculture Department,while the average price ofboxed beef—cuts that pack-aging plants box to ship toretailers—was up 26%.“The whole industry wasmotivated to do something,”said Rusty Kemp, a Sustain-able Beef co-founder, refer-ring to the ranching industry.“It’s been a tough 36 monthsfor a lot of cattle feeders.”Some cattlemen havepushed Washington totighten antitrust rules for thefour biggest meatpackers,JBS USA Holdings Inc., TysonFoods Inc., Cargill Inc. andNational Beef Packing Co. ThePlease turn to page A12BYPATRICKTHOMASStocksmoveloweronPowellcomments.................................. B10Ranchers Take AimAt Meatpackers’ TurfNebraska cattlemen plan their own butcheringplant to bypass beef-processing giantsWASHINGTON—The U.S. issending some of the Soviet-made air defense equipment itsecretly acquired decades agoto bolster the Ukrainian mili-tary as it seeks to fend offRussian air and missile at-tacks, U.S. officials said.The systems, which one U.S.official said include the SA-8,are decades old and were ob-tained by the U.S. so it couldexamine the technology usedby the Russian military andA rescue worker Monday at the site of a shopping center in Kyiv that was shelled by Russian forces.KYIV, Ukraine—Russian at-tacks struck Kyiv, Odessa andother locations across Ukraineas Moscow appears to beshifting its battle plan to com-pel Ukraine to relinquishclaims to its southern andeastern territory.Ukraine on Monday re-buffed Russia’s demand to sur-render the embattled port cityof Mariupol, where intensefighting continued.As its military offensiveagainst Ukraine has stalled,Russia is increasingly bombingcivilian areas in what someU.S. officials believe is evolv-ing into a war of attritionaimed at pressuring the gov-ernment in Kyiv into grantingconcessions and acquiescingto Moscow’s demands.The seeming tactical shiftcomes as President Biden isheading to Europe this weekfor meetings with allies andpartners in the North AtlanticPlease turn to page A8which Moscow has exportedaround the world.The weapons are familiar toUkraine’s military, which in-herited this type of equipmentfollowing the breakup of theSoviet Union.The Pentagon declined tocomment on the U.S. decisionto reach into its little-knownarsenal of Soviet weapons,which comes as the Biden ad-ministration is mounting amajorpushtoex-pand Ukraine’s air defense ca-pabilities.The U.S. over the decadeshas acquired a small numberof Soviet missile defense sys-tems so that they could be ex-amined by U.S. intelligence ex-perts and help with trainingU.S. forces.The secretive efforts re-ceived public attention in 1994when a Soviet-made transportplane was observed at theHuntsville, Ala., airport withinsight of a major highway. Itwas later disclosed that theplane was carrying an S-300air defense system that theU.S. had acqui