Cash Cattle Stabilize Market

This is Matt Rice with the Ag Information Network and today’s Market Line Report for Monday. Cash Cattle continued to firm up, which helped stabiliz the beef market as a whole. Let’s go to Oliver Sloup with the CME Group to hear more.

Chicago Soft Red Winter Wheat prices for Dec. closed the day Dn 9 ¼, to finish at 8-29 ¼. Dec Corn was Dn 1 ½, to finish the day at 6-80 ¾. Kansas City Hard Red Winter Wheat prices for Dec. were Dn 7 ¼, to settle at 9-25.

Portland prices for Club Wheat with 10 ½ % Protein were Unch, ranging from 8-90 to 9-65. Soft White Wheat with 10 ½ % Protein prices for Dec. were Dn 7-Unch, ranging from 8-83 to 9-15. Hard Red Winter Wheat with 11 ½ percent Protein prices for Jan. were Dn 7 ¼, ranging from 10-45 to 10-85. DNS wheat with 14 % protein, prices for Nov. were Dn 5 ½, ranging from 10-25 to 10-45.

Live Cattle for Dec. were Dn $.42 ½, closing at 153.00. Jan. Feeder Cattle were Dn $.07 ½, to finish the day at 180.37 ½. Nov. Class III milk was Dn $.18, to settle at 20.21.