USDA released its monthly Cattle on Feed report today; the inventory of cattle and calves on feed on feedlots with 1,000 head capacity or more on 1 March was 11.6 million, or 96 percent of March 2022. The numbers were mostly in line with expectations, so the report is mostly neutral for cattle prices. However, as WPI mentioned yesterday, there is a lot riding on retail beef demand.
This is the sixth consecutive month where on-feed inventories are lower than year-ago levels, which will be a trend for most of the rest of 2023 – if not all of the year.
The average daily marketings in February 2023 were 91,316 head based on 19 days; that compares to 92,350 in January on 20 days. Marketings as a percent of inventory was 14.9 percent;...
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Yesterday we wrote about the Q1 GDP numbers and the June employment reports in an article entitled Real GDP for Q1 Relying on AI Buildout, Held Back by Consumer Spending. That article mentioned that consumer spending had become a drag on GDP. Nonetheless, real GDP in Q1 was revised upward to 2...
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