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A South Dakota State risk specialist explains how to compute and use live cattle basis, drawing on 2019 Sioux Falls auction data. The piece also notes that USDA reporting changed in May 2019.
Basis analysis helps feeders time cash sales and hedges, but it does not itself signal a new price move.
u.osu.eduSmith atJan 29, 2020Not enough comparable past events yet for a historical read.
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.
