Today’s WASDE reduced the forecast for red meat and poultry production slightly from the September forecast with higher cow slaughter from culling being offset by lower hog slaughter in Q4, a slower pace of steer and heifer slaughter, and recent trends in poultry hatchery and slaughter data (more on that below).
The outlook for next year is lower production based on lighter feeder cattle placements in early 2022 and tighter supplies of fed cattle in the second half of 2022, lower hog slaughter based on the latest Hogs and Pigs Inventory report, which showed drops in the June to August pig crop and the farrowing intentions for September to November. An interesting change from the September WASDE to today’s report...
What You Need to Know Today: The hot, dry weather forecast continues to drive strength in grain futures with corn and soybeans hitting another day of strong gains. Monday’s Crop Progress and Conditions data were in line with market expectations and showed relatively few concerns for the...
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...
