Download PDF This week’s weighted average price for cash cattle was almostexactly $120, pretty much the same level it has been at for the pastfive weeks. The cutouts stalled, with the Choice losing $0.23 andthe Select down $3.04. Many market observers are holding theirbreath waiting for the cutouts to plummet from these extremelevels. I’m not …
Download PDF The big news this week was the disruptions at JBS facilities due toa cyberattack. The attack occurred on Sunday, May 30.Fortunately, there was no kill scheduled for Monday since it was aholiday. Most of the JBS beef plants were down on Tuesday andthe daily kill only amounted to 94k, when 120k was more …
Download PDF The cash cattle market was essentially unchanged this week, with theaverage for live transactions coming in at $119.64. In the previous twoweeks, the averages were $119.73 and $119.72, so you can see thatthere has been almost no movement in the cash cattle market for threeweeks now. In fact, it looks like someone is …
Download PDF Cash cattle prices were essentially unchanged from last week,averaging $119.71 on the week. The cutouts, however, kept pushinghigher, with the Choice adding a little over $9 and the Select up about$4.60. There are many who are expecting a sharp retracement in thecutouts now that all of the Memorial Day business is wrapped up, …
Download PDF Cash cattle traded in the $119-120 range this week, up about$1.50 from the week before. Strong gains in the futures early inthe week likely prompted packers to pay up, but the market soldoff hard on Thursday and that brought the higher cash trade to anabrupt end. Packers had plenty of extra revenue to …
Download PDF Cash cattle traded in the $117-119 range this week, with the average coming in at $118.35—about $0.50 below last week. The beef markets kept screaming higher, with the Choice cutout gaining $11.70 and the Select up $7.56. Those increases were bigger than what I had dialed in and therefore some upward forecast revision …
Download PDF Cash cattle averaged close to $119 this week, down about $2 fromlast week’s average. The cutouts were headed in the otherdirection, with the Choice gaining $11.60 on a weekly average basisand the Select up $7.68. At the end of the week, the Choice cutoutwas approaching $297 and yes, I had to revise all …
Download PDF The cash cattle market felt soft again this week, but the weeklyaverage cash price for the live trade was only down about $0.70 to$121.36. Part of the reason that it felt soft was that there weresome cattle feeders that accepted prices below $120, although theaverage suggests there weren’t too many of those. The …
Download PDF The weekly average of cash cattle traded live this week was $121.93,just a hair under the $122.01 posted last week. The dressed tradecame in at $195.63, slightly above last week’s average of $195.30. Soit is safe to say the cash cattle market was essentially flat this week,but boy it sure didn’t feel like …
Download PDF The cash cattle market moved sharply higher this week, withaverage prices near $122, up nearly $4 from the week before.There were even reports of some trade at $123. So, how does amarket go from being stuck at $114 for seven weeks to jumping $8in the last three weeks? You can thank the astounding …