October 1 Cattle on Feed

  The October Cattle on Feed report is viewed as bullish relative to expectations. The September placement rate fell well short of both last year and the avg trade estimate. This also put October 1 cattle feed supplies short of expectations, but still above a year ago. The chart shows that the on-feed total of…

Evening Weather Update

Nearby Forecast Conducive to Harvest; Return of Rain Possible Late Oct/Early Nov: The GFS model is much wetter in the 8-15 day period. Soaking rain and lite snow is offered to the Central and Eastern Midwest beginning next weekend. So far, the other forecasting models are not in agreement with the GFS but a close…