USDA will release its Cattle on Feed report tomorrow; analysts’ pre-report estimates peg the total number of cattle on feed as of 1 December at 97 percent of December 2021. All the analysts’ forecasts were all below 100 percent, ranging from 96.5 to 97.6 percent of a year ago. This will end the year with the third consecutive month, and third month of 2022 where on-feed inventories are lower than year-ago levels – a big turnaround based on drought fueled herd liquidation. It would also be the first December reduction in inventory since 2016.
Placements in November are forecast to be 96 percent of last year. Marketings are expected to be 101 percent of last year, based on the pace of slaughter. Outside of th...
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...
