Individual purchase weight and price were recorded, and steers were assigned USDA feeder cattle grades of Large (LG), Medium (MED), or Small (SM) frame size and Number 1 or Number 2 muscle thickness by the same official USDA market graders. Steers were grazed on rye pasture and were then...
Feeder cattle characteristics; Relationship of feeder cattle frame size to live weight at a choice grade end point; Relationship of feeder cattle flesh condition to final live weight and carcass grade traits.GronaA.D.TatumJ.D.BelkK.E.Smith...
Explanatory feeder cattle basis models were developed for 16 different Virginia markets byseason, futures contract month, weight, lot size, sex, breed and USDA grade differentials. Themodels are more disaggregated and explain up to 80 percent more of feeder cattle basisvariation than any previous re...
But beyond the short term, I still view this market broadly as a ‘hold’ as the net impact of the Fed meeting (and all of this week’s news so far) is to imply that the S&P 500 should remain largely rangebound between 4,350ish on the high end and 4,200ish on the low end, ...
In addition to DRP and LGM, another insurance options for livestock producers is Livestock Risk Protection (LRP), which is available for feeder cattle, fed cattle, and swine. It provides protection against declining market prices. Recent changes, which include increased head limits and additional su...
cattle supply for processing. Beef exports are forecast to reach the fourth highest on record in 2024 and regain some market share in three of its biggest Asian market destinations. Australian pork production is forecast to increase slightly in 2024 after strong growth in 2...
a faster pace of placements and slower-than-expected pace of marketings of fed cattle has resulted in the largest on-feed numbers recorded for the month of April. This has likely kept feeder calf prices restrained given late-2022 fed cattle prices implied by the futures market in late 2022....
The Effect of USDA Cattle on Feed Reports on Feeder Cattle Futures Prices. Paper presented at Western Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting - Dhuyvetter, Schroeder, et al. - 1997Dhuyvetter, Kevin C., Ted C. Schroeder, and Joseph L. Parcell, "The Effect ofUSDA Cattle on Feed ...
This study examines the responsiveness of futures market prices for live hogs, live cattle, and feeder cattle to economic information contained in the USDA livestock inventory reports. Event study methodology is employed to test for persistent biases in market price changes around inventory report ...