National Feeder Cattle
Weekly Summary
St. Joseph, Mo.
May 3,2002
Report Supplied By USDA
NATIONAL FEEDER CATTLE
SUMMARY for week ending May 3.
RECEIPTS; Auctions; This Week
205,900, Last Week 224,600. Direct:
This Week 65,200, Last Week
50.700. Video/lntemet; This Week
10,600, Last Week 43,400. TOTAL:
This Week 271,700, Last Week
318.700. Old Format: This Week
133,200, Last Week 122,800, Last
Year 186,900. This week’s auction
volume included 48 percent over 600
lbs and 48 percent heifers.
Compared to last week, feeder
and Stocker cattle sold 1.00-3.00
higher as reported by the USDA’s
Livestock Market News Service. The
full advance was posted on yearlings
weighing over 750 lbs, which also
made up a large portion of this
week's receipts. Demand for feedlot
placements returned this week,
spurred by last Friday’s limit-up
CME Futures close. Heavyweight
feeders were plentiful with big num
bers coming off wheat and showing
up at auction markets in Texas, Ok
lahoma, and Kansas.
Further east, offerings were most
ly made up of fleshy new-crop calves
where demand was surprisingly
good. But of course, trading was the
most active on thin and lightweight
yearlings from 550-750 lbs that buy
ers were fighting over to turn out on
grass. Widely scattered rains have
vastly improved pasture conditions
in many areas over the last few
weeks. Feeder cattle receipts are cur
rently very light in the mountain
states and the northern plains where
fall calving is unpopular. These
ranchers are spending their days rid
ing through pastures of cows and
calves, all the while thankful that
they don’t have to either buy or sell
cattle in this spring’s volatile mar
ket.
Market uncertainty is at an all
time high and a series of sharp
moves in either direction has been
the norm for the last several weeks.
Thank goodness for the 1.50 daily
limit on the cattle futures or we
might see cattlemen all smiles one
day, only to hear that they bailed off
their feedmill or windmill tower the
next. Stability has also eluded the
cash market as salebarn managers
are having a hard time telling con
signors within 10.00 of what they
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can expect for their cattle. However;
the slaughter cattle market has
shown consistency consistently
lower that is, and the possibility of
fat cattle trading in the 50’s is so
close it’s frightening. The abundance
of competing proteins on the market
has prevented dressed beef sales
from seeing the usual spring spark.
Belknap Livestock
Belknap, Pa.
Report Supplied By USDA
May 8,2002
CATTLE 109...(PDA).
STEERS: one Choice 2-3 1372 lbs
69.50, Select 1-3 59.00-64.00, Stan
dard 1-2 50.00-57.00.
HOLSTEIN STEERS: Choice 2-3
1070-1530 lbs 55.75-59.75, Select 1-2
53.00- Standard 1-2
46.00-
HEIFERS: Standard 1-2
50.00-
COWS: Breakers 75-80% lean
43.00- Boners 80-85% lean
40.00- Lean 85-90% lean
39.50-45.00. Shells down to 36.00.
BULLS: Yield Grade 1 1505-1880
lbs 56.50-57.75, Yield Grade 2
1180-1560 lbs 53.50-55.75.
FEEDER CATTLE: STEERS:
few Medium 2 410-655 lbs
56.00- HEIFERS: Medium 2
340-670 lbs 60.50-71.00; BULLS.
Medium 2 305-675 lbs 56.00-62.00,
one 73.00.
CALVES 84...VEALERS: Good
150-240 lbs Holsteins 60.00-70.00,
Standard and Good 55-125 lbs
50.00- Utility 60-65 lbs
29.00-
FARM CALVES: No 1 Holstein
bulls 90-120 lbs 130.00-165.00, one
172.50, No 2 80-125 lbs 80.00-135.00;
one No 1 Holstein heifer 96 lbs
500.00, No 2 65-100 lbs
175.00-
Beef cross bulls and heifers 70-115
lbs 100.00-155.00.
HOGS 69...8ARR0WS AND
GILTS: 45-50% lean 240-285 lbs
30.50-32.50,40-45% lean 225-295 lbs
25.00-
SOWS: 1-3 328 & 350 lbs 23.00 &
28.00, one 792 lbs 19.00.
BOARS: 250-305 lbs 18.00-20.00.
FEEDER PIGS 40... 1-2 60-65 lbs
40.00- 2-3 30-35 lbs
28.00- 3 25-35 lbs 12.50-20.00
per head.
SHEEP 11... SLAUGHTER
LAMBS: three Choice 45 lbs 90.00,
three 65 lbs 81.00. SLAUGHTER
SHEEP: 15.00-22.00.
GOATS 45..(A11 sold by the head
with weights estimated). Kids: Selec
tion 2 20-40 lbs 25.00-35.00. Selec
tion 3 20-40 lbs 10.00-15.00. Nan
nies: 50-70 lbs 30.00-47.50, 30-50 lbs
16.00- Billies: 70-100 lbs
58.00-
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