May 14 2020

Texas Daily Ag Market News Summary Posted 4 years 198 days ago by Administrator Account

Daily Market Summary for May 14th

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Slaughter Cattle:

As of 3:00 PM Thursday, negotiated cash trading has been at a standstill in the Southern Plains and Nebraska. In the Western Cornbelt negotiated cash trading has been inactive with very light demand. Not enough trades for a market trend. Wednesday was the last fully reported market in Kansas, Nebraska and Western Cornbelt. In Kansas live trades moved at 115.00. In Nebraska the bulk of live and dressed trades moved at 110.00 and 180.00, respectively. In the Western Cornbelt the bulk of live and dressed trades moved at 115.00 and 180.00, respectively. In the Texas Panhandle the last fully reported market was on Tuesday with live trades at 110.00.                               

    

Negotiated Sales:

Confirmed:               259

Week Ago:             2,318

Year Ago:             30,075

       

Formula Net

Dressed Steers & Heifers:

Head count priced today:   13,700

Weighted avg. weight:       899 lbs.

Weighted avg. net price:   167.70

         

Cattle Slaughter under Federal Inspection:

Thursday (est)                        92,000

Week ago (est)                       86,000

Year ago (act)                       122,000

Week to Date                      358,000

Same Period Last Week    323,000

Same Period Last year       485,000

Previous Day (est)

Steers & Heifers:  68,000

Cows & Bulls:        23,000

                                                                                                               

Boxed Beef:

Cutout Values:

Choice: 450.92… -15.07

Select:  437.40… +0.16

Choice/Select Spread: 13.52

Total Load Count: 104

         

Cutter Cow Cutout:

232.50… -6.30

    

CME Feeder Cattle Index for May 12th:

123.52… +0.41

        

Futures…

Live Cattle:

June: 94.12… +0.25

August: 97.00… -1.42

October: 99.95… -1.55

    

Feeder Cattle:

May: 123.80… -1.50

August: 131.05… -2.02

September: 132.52… -1.85

      

May Hogs: 68.67… +0.67

June Crude Oil: 27.56… +2.27

    

July Corn: 3.1750… -0.0075

July Soybeans: 8.3700… -0.0250

July Wheat: 5.0225… +0.0050

    

Grain Cash Bids:

Kansas City Corn: 3.21… -0.01

Kansas City Soybeans: 8.27… -0.03

Kansas City Wheat: 4.82… Unchanged

    

Financial Markets:

DJIA: 23,625.34… +377.37

S & P 500: 2,852.50… +32.50

NASDAQ: 8,943.72… +80.55

U.S. Dollar Index: 100.32… +0.08