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...
What You Need to Know Today: There has already been a strong run of flash soybean sales announcements in recent weeks, but more than 1.4 MMT reported this morning is an exceptionally large single-day total with major implications for the market. If the sales to China and unknown destinations w...
On Friday, at 6:57 AM, President Donald Trump announced, via a social media post, a 90-day window during which up to 300,000 metric tons of product for ground beef could be imported outside of tariff-rate quotas—a move aimed at bringing down costs for American consumers. This is the secon...
