JC_LS135 
Jefferson City, MO    Fri Jan 03, 2020    MO Dept of Ag-USDA Market News

Missouri Weekly Direct Slaughter Cattle (week end 01-03-2020)  
Confirmed Sales:

  Week to date:  440       Last week:  No Sales     Last Year: 360

 These prices acquired from Missouri producers )

     Trading from late last Friday through Friday morning of this week 
remains light with flat dressed sales 3.00-5.00 higher at 198.00-200.00.  
Fed cattle prices ended the year on a high note with last week’s higher 
cash trade.  Packers were aggressive buyers late last week and have many 
believing this week’s cash trade will also see increases as cash 
continues to grind higher.  Recent snowstorm in Nebraska and South Dakota 
has left feedlots in those areas very muddy and in sloppy conditions.  
Boxed-beef values continue to see pressure which will have packer margins 
deteriorating, but supplies seem to indicate that packers will remain 
aggressive to own cattle.  Thursday Choice closed 1.17 lower at 208.25 
with Select .51 cents lower at 202.63, compared to last Friday’s close 
with Choice at 208.96 and Select at 204.57.   The hide and offal value 
from a typical slaughter steer on Thursday was estimated at 8.83 per cwt 
live unchanged when compared to Wednesday’s value.  
   
 
Live Sales: 
Slaughter steers and heifers: (over 90 percent Choice)         

(Note: Weighing conditions some plant delivered weights and some net
 weights FOB feedlot after a 4 percent shrink.

Dressed Carcass Sales: (Paid on Hot Carcass Weights) Delivered or
 Picked up (Weight only)      
 
   Steers and Heifers: (80 percent Choice) late last Friday 4 loads Flat 
195.00; 3 Loads Thursday afternoon Flat 198.00; 2 Loads Flat Friday 
morning 200.00.

(Grid) Grade and Weight Carcass: (over 80 percent Choice)  2 Loads late 
last Friday 198.00.      
  
Source:  MO Dept of Ag-USDA Market News Service, Perry, MO
         Greg Harrison, Market Reporter 573-751-5618
         24 hour recorded report 573-522-9244
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