Markets Extra

Summary of June 19 USDA monthly cattle on feed report

Markets Extra22 Jun 2020by Agrimoney Newsdesk

USDA’s monthly cattle-on-feed report was released on Friday.

The following data compare the government’s data with analysts’ estimates in the Urner Barry survey for cattle in the nation’s feedyards that have a capacity of 1,000 or more animals.

The figures are expressed as a percentage of the year-before number.

	USDA’s estimates	Average of estimates	Range of estimates
On-feed June 1	100.0	99.0	95.5–100.0
Placed in May	99.0	97.6	81.2–102.2
Marketed in May	72.0	73.6	72.7–76.8

Urner Barry, like Agrimoney, is owned by AgriBriefing.

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