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Feeder Cattle Pit May '24 (FCK24)

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Feeder Cattle (Pit) Futures Market News and Commentary

Cattle Close with Thursday Losses
Barchart - Thu Feb 5, 5:30PM CST

Live cattle rounded out a weaker Thursday session with contracts down $5 to $6.20. The Thursday Fed Cattle Exchange online auction showed no sales on the 1,602 head offered, with bids of $235-236. Cash movement has been quiet this week. Feeder cattle futures were down $6 to $7.50 in the front months on the Thursday session. The CME Feeder Cattle Index was back up 59 cents to $375.16 on February 4.

Late on Wednesday, workers at the Greeley, CO JBS plant (~5,000 hd/day) voted to authorize a strike, though they did not give specifics on a timeline of when said strike would begin.

USDA reported 19,748 MT of beef sold in the week ending on 1/29. That was the largest so far in the calendar year. South Korea was the largest buyer of 7,600 MT, with 6,300 MT sold to Japan. Shipments were tallied at just 12,992 MT, which was 3.32% above the previous week, but down 34.53% from the same week last year. Of that total, 4,400 MT was headed to South Korea, with 3,800 MT shipped to Japan... Read more

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