Cattle Current Daily—June 30, 2023

Cattle Current Daily—June 30, 2023

Cattle futures continued to gain Thursday on Corn weakness.

Feeder Cattle futures closed an average of $1.41 higher (90¢ to $2.12 higher).

Live Cattle futures closed an average of 43¢ higher.

Corn futures closed 6¢ to 9¢ lower.

Soybean futures closed mostly fractionally lower to 4¢ lower, except for gains in the front four contracts.

KC HRW Wheat closed mostly 7¢ to 10¢ lower.

Negotiated cash fed cattle trade ranged from mostly limited on light demand to mostly inactive on light demand through Thursday afternoon, according to the Agricultural Marketing Service.

There were a few live trades in Nebraska at $182/cwt., but too few to trend.

So far this week, live sales in Kansas are $2 lower at $178.

Last week, live prices were $180/cwt. in the Southern Plains $182-$185 in Nebraska and $184-$185 in the western Corn Belt. Dressed prices were $290.

Choice boxed beef cutout value 15¢ higher Thursday afternoon at $328.05/cwt. Select was 50¢ higher at $297.18/cwt.

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Major U.S. financial indices closed mostly higher Thursday, buoyed by banks’ successful passage of stress testing.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed 296 points higher. The S&P 500 closed 19 points higher. The NASDAQ was fractionally lower.

West Texas Intermediate Crude Oil futures (CME) closed 18¢ to 30¢ higher through the front six contracts.

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Per capita red meat and poultry disappearance—often used as a proxy for consumption—is forecast to decline 1% next year, mostly due to an 8% projected decline in per capita disappearance of beef, according to USDA’s Economic Research Service.

For pork, a very slight decrease in pork production, combined with higher expected exports, result in a very small decrease in forecast per capita disappearance next year.

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