Negotiated cash fed cattle prices continued the early-week’s lower tone through Tuesday afternoon, according to the Direct Slaughter Cattle Dashboard from USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service. Live steers averaged $102.81/cwt. and live heifers averaged $101.62. In the beef, steers averaged $164.62 and heifers averaged $163.41.
Cattle futures rallied higher on Tuesday, amid relatively light trade, helped along by strength in outside markets, normalizing supply chains and possibly some early positioning ahead of the monthly Cattle on Feed report due out Friday.
Live Cattle futures closed an average of 99¢ higher (25¢ higher in spot Jun to $1.22 higher).
Feeder Cattle futures closed an average $2.03 higher ($1.70 higher in spot Aug to $2.30 higher at the back).
Choice boxed beef cutout value was 72¢ lower Tuesday afternoon at $227.89/cwt. Select was $1.18 lower at $213.17.
Corn futures closed mostly fractionally higher to 1¢ higher.
Soybean futures closed mostly 2¢ lower through Sep ’21 and then mostly unchanged.
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