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DAILY NEWS AND MARKETS
Daily Market Update

DAILY FED CATTLE REPORT

Fed cattle in the Southern Plains and Western Cornbelt has been inactive so far on Wednesday. In the Northern Plains trading has been limited on light demand. Not enough sales activity, in any feeding region, for an adequate market trend.

 

 
 
 
Daily News

FEDERAL LAND ENERGY PROJECTS TO BE FAST-TRACKED

Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar today said the Department of the Interior would implement measures designed to more quickly permit renewable energy projects in the form of solar and wind projects on federal public lands controlled by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and other agencies.

 

 
 
 
Daily Market Update

DAILY FEEDER CATTLE REPORT

In Oklahoma City, OK, this week, feeder steers and heifers were steady to $2 higher than the previous week. Demand was called very good for feeder cattle, with second grade cattle selling with very little discount to number one grade. Steer and heifer calves were steady to $2 higher on a light test.

 

 
 
 
Daily News

USDA SHOCKS GRAIN MARKETS

USDA shocked the grain markets Tuesday, reporting that planted acreage this year has reached 87 million acres, the second-largest amount of acreage planted behind 2007's crop and 1 million acres more than the agency forecast in March.

 

 
 
 
Daily News

USDA LOWERS BEEF EXPORT FORECAST

U.S. beef exports are expected to decline about 8 percent in 2009 to 1.744 billion pounds, USDA predicted in its Livestock, Dairy, Poultry Outlook report. Weak foreign demand and a stronger U.S. dollar are weighing on exports, with beef exports to Mexico down 19 percent and exports to Canada down 15 percent from a year ago.

 

 
 
 
 
 
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Time to brag

Boy, talk about market volatility. The corn acreage report came out last Tuesday. USDA said there were 2 million more acres planted than they originally thought and bam, July corn dropped 30 cents to $3.47. The same day, live cattle dropped $2.10. But the good news, for many of our readers,

 

 
 
 
News

Officials scrambling to complete TB investigation

No new cases detected last week.

Nebraska Director of Agriculture Greg Ibach announced last week that despite testing more than 5,000 head of cattle, no additional cases of bovine tuberculosis (TB) have been detected in the state. The results of the testing are critical for cattle producers in the state who are awaiting

 

 
 
 
News

USDA to revamp brucellosis plan

The USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has released a tentative proposal regarding brucellosis that, if enacted, could drastically change the way the disease is managed in the U.S. The proposal is actually a revised version of a plan that was first released last fall,

 

 
 
 
News

USDA report sinks corn market expectations

USDA shocked the grain markets last Tuesday, reporting that planted acreage this year has reached 87 million acres, the second-largest amount of acreage planted behind 2007’s crop and 1 million acres more than the agency forecast in March.

 

 
 
 
Markets

Fed cattle market rallies, trade $1-2 higher

Fed cattle trade last week was expected to be on the upswing after the market fundamentals took a turn for the better and prices rallied on tighter showlists of market-ready cattle and an improvement in the June contract ahead of expiration.

 

 
 
 
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