USDA released its cattle on feed report today and as expected marketings were at an historic low (since records began in 1996) at 1.46 million head. Placements were the second lowest total for the month on record. Total inventory was down to 11.2 million head compared to 11.3 million head on 1 April and the second month in a row with inventory at 95 percent of the same month in 2019.
The average daily marketing of cattle was 66,318 head, based on 22 workdays in the month (the same as March when the daily marketing average was 91,365 head). Marketings for the month were 13 percent of the total in inventory on feed, compared to 18 percent in March and 15 percent in February.
Not surprisingly the biggest percentage jumps in placeme...
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Tomorrow is the Juneteenth federal holiday, and the USDA, along with the rest of the federal government and the CME, will be closed, so the monthly Cattle on Feed report was released a day early. The total number of cattle on feed in feedlots with 1,000 head or more capacity on 1 June amounted...
