Livestock and Grain Markets, Prices & Futures
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Cattle feeding margins took another tumble last week as cash fed cattle prices declined $2.40 per cwt.
Beef packer margins jumped into the black last week while cattle feeders saw their margins improve $88 per head, according to the Sterling Beef Profit Tracker.
A $4 per cwt. rally in cash fed cattle prices reduced losses for fed cattle to less than $50 per head last week.
Beef packers saw their margins jump $51 per head higher last week, ending with profits more than $83.
Cattle feeding losses nearly doubled last week as cash fed cattle prices declined another $2 per cwt.
It’s been a rough fall for cattle feeders, but cowboys found some signs last week that suggest the worst may be behind them.
Cattle feeders hope the cash market found its bottom last week.
The adjectives have all been used to describe the despair that is cattle feeding. Last week was simply worse than the week before, which was a train wreck.
Calculated breakeven prices for cattle shipped from feedyards last week were $170.12, according to Sterling Marketing, Vale, Ore.
Uncharted territory. That’s where America’s cattle feeding industry finds itself as fed cattle lose $611 per head.