Cattle on Feed Report is MIA USDA’s Cattle on Feed (COF) report is normally released on the third Friday of each month. The inventory data is for the month it is issued, and the placements and marketing numbers are for the previous month. The January COF report, however, will be missing tomorrow due to the partial government shutdown. Also likely not to be published (at least on time) is the January version of the biannual Cattle Inventory report, which breaks down the estimated total in detail by beef cows, milk cows, bulls, replacement heifers, steers, heifers, and calf crop. The data in those reports provide important benchmarks for the year and impact how markets trade. Add the timing of this shutoff of information, which is aft...
What You Need to Know Today: Commodities were mostly lower across the board today after yesterday’s Federal Reserve meeting hinted at a potential interest rate hike later in 2026. The dollar index reached its highest level in over a year, and a strong dollar makes U.S. agricultural expor...
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...
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