Although there were too few transactions to trend, there were some early dressed trades in Nebraska and the western Corn Belt on Wednesday at $169/cwt, according to the Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS). That’s was $1-$2 higher than last week.
Cattle feeders offered 470 head (three lots) in the weekly Fed Cattle Exchange auction. Of those, 367 head (two lots from Texas) sold for delivery at 1-17 days for a weighted average price of $108.50, which was mostly $1.50 higher than last week’s country trade in the region.
Slaughter steers and heifers sold $2-$3 higher at Sioux Falls Regional in South Dakota. There were 406 head of Choice 3-4 steers weighing an average of 1,562 lbs. and bringing an average price of $106.35.
At the fat auction in Tama, IA, Choice steers and heifers sold $2 higher, with 194 head of Choice 2-4 steers weighing an average of 1,421 lbs. and bringing an average price of $108.07.
Cattle futures firmed with the outlook for steady to higher cash fed cattle prices this week.
Live Cattle futures closed mostly higher across a wide range. Except for unchanged and 7¢ lower in the back two contracts, they closed an average of 48¢ higher (12¢ to $1.15 higher).
Feeder Cattle futures closed mostly narrowly higher. Except for 15¢ and 40¢ lower in two contracts, they were an average of 18¢ higher.
Choice boxed beef cutout value was 68¢ higher Wednesday afternoon at $216.88/cwt. Select was $1.26 lower at $205.58.
Corn futures closed 2¢ to 3¢ higher through Jly ’21 and then mostly fractionally mixed.
Soybean futures closed 7¢ and 6¢ higher in the front two contracts and then mostly 3¢ to 5¢ lower.
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