There is little reason to think fed cattle prices will climb in coming months, but there isn’t much information available to think prices will begin a long slide at this time either. Unless they began that slide last week when cash cattle prices dropped about $3 per cwt. University of Tennessee Livestock Economist Andrew Griffith … Read More

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Managed money, or large commodity funds, continued to advance their net long live cattle position during the week ended Tuesday, while commercial traders extended their net short position. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission said in its weekly Commitments of Traders report Friday that managed money had a net long live cattle position of 105,008 contracts, … Read More

Central banks around the world are facing a dilemma.  Do they continue with the previously untried and unproven methods of dealing with their economies, or do they return to a more “normal” way of doing business? A white paper by Credit Suisse said after the Great Recession hit in 2008, central banks began searching for … Read More

A negative carry in live cattle futures shows a lack of confidence in the market’s strength going forward. Normally, a futures market will have a positive carry, meaning successive months trade at somewhat higher prices to cover just enough of the actual carrying cost of a commodity to keep it from coming to market all … Read More

Market analysts said the USDA’s Cattle Inventory report Tuesday may be perceived bearishly by live cattle futures traders, especially when taken in conjunction with the USDA’s Cattle on Feed report and the cold storage report. All three reports showed greater inventories that must be worked through, they said.  And if foreign trade declines, it will … Read More

The latest fed-cattle rally has taken feedlot margins well into the black for the ninth straight week, while packers had their worst margin week in months, according to the Sterling Beef Profit Tracker, published by AgWeb. For the week ended Jan. 20, the USDA’s five-area direct price of $122 per cwt, boosting average calculated unhedged … Read More