National Feeder Cattle
Weekly Review
St. Joseph, Mo.
Friday, Juite
Report Supplied By OSD A
NATIONAL FEEDER & STOCKER
CATTLE SUMMARY - Week Ending
June 27 NATIONAL FEEDER &
STOCKER CATTLE SUMMARY Total
Receipts: 255,400; last week 255,100; last
year 260,000. Direct: 78,800; last week
59,900; last year 56,500. Video/Intemet;
3,300; last week 18,700; last year none.
Auctions; 173,300, last week 176,500; last
Five-Area Weekly Average Direct Slaughter Cattle
St. Joseph, Mo., June 30, 2003 - USDA Market News Service
Sales in Texas/Oklahoma; Kansas; Nebraska;
Colorado; and lowa/Minnesota Feedlots for
Week Ending Sunday, June 29, 2003
Confirmed Sales: 185,838; Week Ago; 135,014; Year Ago; 169,670
LIVE FOB BASIS SALES - Beef B reeds:
SLAUGHTER STEERS.
Head
Count
Over 80% Choice 1,866
65-80% Choice 7,877
35-80% Choice 40,271
0-35% Choice 759
TOTAL all grades 50,773
SLAUGHTER HEIFERS:
Over 80% Choice
65-80% Choice
35-65% Choice
0-35% Choice
TOTAL all grades
DRESSEbDELiv
SLAUGHTER STE
Over 80% Choice 794 825-869
65-80% Choice 8,293 689-896
35-65% Choice 19,870 671-896
0-35% Choice 83 803
TOTAL all grades 29,040 671-896
SLAUGHTER HEIFERS:
Over 80% Choice 430 688-756
65-80% Choice 5,606 636-806
35-65% Choice 13,743 647-810
0-35% Choice
TOTAL all grades 19,779 636-810
Live Steer
Dressed Heifer
Dressed Steer
Dressed Heifer
Same Period L
Live Steer
Live Heifer
Dressed Steer
Dressed Heifer
Same Period Last Year;
Live Steer
Live Heifer
Dressed Steer
Dressed Heifer
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year 203,500. This weeks reported auctftm
volume included only 39% over 600 lbs
(due to a heavy influence from the South
eastLgid 44% heifers.
Compared to last week; yearling feeder
cattle sold steady to 2.00 higher with most
gains seen in the auction markets. Direct
yearling sales were steady to firm as buy
ers are reluctant to pay higher prices, un
less the cattle are in front of them and
they are being pushed by the guy in the
next row. The enormous strength of the
feeder market is as hard to explain as the
weakness in the slaughter market.
Weight
Range
1250-1400
1160-1430
1100-1385
1175-1325
1100-1430
1100-1250
1025-1285
1025-1360
1085
1025-1360
iis sales'
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6,615
38,620
82
46,086
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Head Count
50,773
46,086
29,040
19,779
38,302
32,037
25,953
13,765
45,501
36,024
37,371
22,385
Price
Range
Avg.
Weight
1,294
1,280
1249
1269
1256
73.00-
73.00-
72.00- 50
73.00-
72.00-
1175
1155
1150
1085
1151
73.00- 00
73.00-
73 00-75.00
74.00
73.00-
Beef Breeds:
833
819
816
803
817
115.00-
115.00-
114.00-
118.00
114.00-
115.00- 717
114.00- 742
114 00-118.00 738
114.00-120.00 739
Avg. Weight Avg. Price
1,256 73.98
1,151 73.91
817 117.11
739 117.14
1,245 74.38
1,143 74.60
803 118.03
740 117.72
63 77
63.87
100.94
100.91
L 266
1,143
839
760
The fed cattle market continued to fade
this week to 74.00, yet beef demand re
mains good and market-ready numbers
are still tight as the Canadian border re
mains closed to all beef products. The
northern farmer-feeders are a major driv
ing force as they are armed with both a
silo and a field full of com. Fancy
8-weight steers in Bassett, Nebraska
reached 95.00 this week. However, the
major High Plains feedlots are doing their
part as well with a string of 1400 Kansas
bound 7-weight feeder heifers in Joplin,
Missouri selling from 84.20-86.70. Neither
of these purchases look too promis
ing at the present time, but empty
pens wont pay the bills when your
business is selling feed.
If more CME futures traders
would get as optimistic about the fall
fat market as the cattle feeders are
then, maybe things would pencil out
a little better. Lightweight Southeast
ern calves sold 1.00-3.00 higher this
week, but farther west anything
weighing under 600 lbs was hard to
find. Although, the heavy new-crop
calves in the central US traded
2.00-3.00 higher as buyers search for
a yearling substitute. Auction re
ceipts across the Northern Plains and
Mountain States are extremely light.
Avg.
Price
74.41
74.09
73.94
73.77
73.98
74.49
73 98
73.88
74 00
73.91
117.92
116.98
117.12
118.00
117.11
ON FARM STORAGE FOR
MAXIMUM PROFITS
117.00
117.09
117.17
117.14
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drag-on as the US Government searches
for a way to keep our Asian beef custom
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good neighbors to the north. Meanwhile, a
single positive BSE case and the subse
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from near 80.00 to below 50.00 since the
outbreak was reported.
New Holland Horses
New Holland Sales Stables
Report Supplied by Auction
Monday, June 30,2003
271 HEAD, MARKET STREADY.
DRIVING HORSES 400.00-1200.00.
RIDING HORSES 325.00-1200.00.
REGISTERED RIDING
900.00-1550.00.
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Eastern Combelt Direct
Feeder Cattle Weekly
Springfield, 111.
June 27,2003
Report Supplied By USDA
Eastern Combelt Direct Feeder Cattle
Summary Illinois, Indiana, Michigan,
and Ohio: Compared to last week, feeder
cattle were weak to 1.00 lower in a light
market test. Demand was light. Trading
was slow as many area producers took
advantage of the good weather and re
turned to their fields. Reported sales con
sisted of about 64% beef steers, 36% heif
ers and 0% Holstein steers.
Approximately 64% of the cattle market
ed this week weighed over 600 lbs. Con
firmed sales 400 this week, 350 last week
and 1200 last year.
FEEDER STEERS: Medium and
Large 1-2: 750-800 lbs 85.00-88.00;
850-875 Jbs 80.00-83.00. HOLSTEINS: no
test.
FEEDER HEIERS:: Medium and
Large l-jt: 550*575 lbs 86.00-92.00.
Prices"are based FOB thjp farm unless
otherwise Indicated. Delivestd prices in
clude freight, commissiot^ K 4frsLother ex-
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