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A fire at Tyson's Holcombe, Kansas beef plant cast a pall over cattle markets, with live and feeder cattle futures limit-down. Some auctions cancelled sales and cash steers and heifers fell $5-$10/cwt.
Corn futures also fell about 36 cents after a surprisingly large USDA production estimate.
Reduced packing capacity lowers demand for fed cattle while a bearish USDA corn estimate weakens feed costs, together pressuring cattle prices.
cattlecurrent.comWLIAug 18, 2019After 29 past bearish logistics events, Live Cattle moved a median -0.3% over 5 sessions (38% higher; middle half -2.0% to +0.5%), and -3.7% over 20.
After 20 past bearish logistics events, Feeder Cattle moved a median +1.3% over 5 sessions (60% higher; middle half -0.7% to +2.0%), and +2.1% over 20.
After 359 past bearish logistics events, Corn moved a median -0.3% over 5 sessions (44% higher; middle half -1.5% to +1.5%), and -0.5% over 20.
Moves of each commodity's benchmark from the last close before the event. Historical reads pool past events of the same kind; they describe what happened, not what will. Not investment advice.
Live and feeder futures limit-down with cash cattle down $5-$10/cwt confirms the price drop, though it was published after the window.
