USDA released the monthly Cattle on Feed report today. Placements were the only category off from the consensus expectation. The range of estimates was a low of 95 percent to a high of 102.4 percent. Actual placements were 104 percent of May 2022.
For the year, January through May, placements are down only 238,000 head and are 97.5 percent of last year. Placements last month were the highest for May since 2019 and well above 2014 and 2015 at similar low points in the cattle cycle.
As WPI noted yesterday, imports from Mexico and Canada are up this year, which looking at the state level data, certainly is a contributing factor. Placements were up in Texas, Oklahoma, Arizona, and Kansas over last month in the Southern Plains,...
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