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Livestock Roundup: Big Cattle on Feed Report on Friday

USDA’s monthly cattle on feed report will be released tomorrow.  Analysts’ pre-report consensus estimates are for the total inventory on feed to be 98.8 percent of last year with the range of estimates between 98.1 and 99.4 percent of 1 June 2024.   Over the past six months, the average analyst estimates for total feedlot inventory has been just 0.1 percent below the actual USDA report. Faced with steep losses, beef packers significantly reduced slaughter rates in May and impacted the marketing numbers. Fed cattle slaughter in May was 10 percent lower than a year ago, with one fewer marketing day in May. Adjusting for the calendar, slaughter was still down 6.3 percent year-over-year.  On the flip side, the s...

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Market Commentary: Wheat and War Rattle Ahead of Holiday

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Jul 25 Corn closed at $4.335/bushel, up $0.02 from yesterday's close.  Jul 25 Wheat closed at $5.7425/bushel, up $0.2525 from yesterday's close.  Jul 25 Soybeans closed at $10.7475/bushel, up $0.0075 from yesterday's close.  Jul 25 Soymeal closed at $284.9/short ton, down $0.2 fr...

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U.S. Juneteenth Holiday

The CBOT/CME markets and our offices will be closed tomorrow, Thursday, 19 June in observance of the U.S. Juneteenth holiday. Please note that the next Ag Perspectives will be published on Friday, 20 June. ...

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Communicating importance of value-added products

Facing increasing pressure to quantify the value of export promotion efforts to investors, a U.S. industry organization retained WPI to develop a quantitative model that better communicated the importance of exports. The resulting model concluded that value-added meat exports contributed $0.45 cents per bushel to the price of corn, increasing support for that sector’s financial support of WPI’s client. In addition to serving the red meat industry with this type of analysis, WPI has generated similar deliverables for the U.S. soybean and poultry/egg industries.

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