Cattle futures closed lower Tuesday, especially Feeder Cattle, with the lack of cash direction, demand wonderments and perhaps queasiness over the next Cattle on Feed report due out Friday.
Live Cattle futures closed an average of 64¢ lower (20¢ to $1.02 lower).
Except for 62¢ higher in spot Sep, Feeder Cattle futures closed an average of $1.33 lower (47¢ to $1.67 lower).
Choice boxed beef cutout value was 78¢ lower Tuesday afternoon at $215.44/cwt. Select was 48¢ higher at $206.30.
Corn futures closed unchanged to fractionally mixed.
Soybean futures closed 1¢ to 3¢ lower through Sep ’21 and then 5¢ to 8¢ lower.
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