USDA released its monthly Cattle on Feed report today; the inventory of cattle and calves on feed was 12 million, 2 percent above May 2021, and the highest May inventory on record. As we mentioned yesterday in the report preview, in five months of 2022, the cattle on feed inventory has set a monthly record four times – February, March, April, and May. January 2022 saw the second largest January inventory on record.
The average daily marketings in April were 90,143, or a 101.4 percent of the 88,901 in April 2021 (on 22 days). That is also up from March 2022 (23 day) when average daily marketings were 86,957 head. Marketings as a percent of inventory on feed are 15.8 percent. As noted yesterday, slaughter has been strong...
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