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Live Cattle Dec '24 (LEZ24)

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Live Cattle Futures Market News and Commentary

Cattle Rallying on Thursday

Live cattle futures are up $1.40 to $1.50 across the front months. Cash trade has yet to kick off this week. This morning’s Central Stockyards online Fed Cattle Exchange auction showed no sales on the 1,354 head listed, with bids of $178.5 to $181 and asks of $183-184. Bids outside of that have been $182 in the North. Feeder cattle futures are $2.00 to $3.30 higher in the nearbys on Thursday. The CME Feeder Cattle Index was back down a nickel at $243.39 on September 17. 

Beef export sales totaled 15,533 MT in the week that ended on September 12. That was back up 36.12% from the week prior. South Korea was the buyer of 3,700 MT, with 3,000 MT sold to China. Shipments totaled a 12-week high at 16,417 MT. The largest destination was 4,400 MT, with 3,800 MT headed to Japan.

Friday’s Cattle on Feed report is expected to show August placements down 1% from a year ago, with August marketings dropping 3.4% according to a Reuters survey of analysts. September 1 on feed estimates... Read more

  • Cattle Rallying on Thursday

    Live cattle futures are up $1.40 to $1.50 across the front months. Cash trade has yet to kick off this week. This morning’s Central Stockyards online...

  • Hogs Squeezing Out Higher Trade on Thursday

    Lean hog futures are posting slight 7 to 35 cent gains on Thursday. The national average base hog price was reported at $76.31 on Thursday morning, up...

  • Cattle Markest Knocking on the Door of a Breakout

    Cattle futures are knocking on the door of a technical resistance. Will the risk-on tone in the outside markets be enough to push cattle markets higher?...

  • Hogs Post Strength on Wednesday, Look to Thursday Trade

    Lean hog futures closed the Wednesday session with most contracts up a dime to 40 cents higher. The national average base hog price was reported at $74.88...

  • Cattle Traders Look To Square Up Ahead of Friday Report

    Live cattle futures posted steady to 20 cent higher trade across all but the nearby October contract, which was down 50 cents. Cash trade has yet to kick...

  • Shootin' the Bull about rate cuts

    I find it more than interesting the Fed cut rates by a half.  I say that due to my initial analysis of economic government reports not reflecting the...

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