March 16, 2005

 

March USDA cattle-on-feed estimates

 

 

The following estimates are in percentages of the year-earlier figure. High and low projections were dropped in the calculation of averages. The US Department of Agriculture report is scheduled for release at 2 p.m. CST (2000 GMT) Friday.

 

 

                                    Average         Range

                                  of estimates    of estimates

On-feed March 1             102.1          101.0-103.0

Placed in February           99.2            96.5-107.5

Marketed in February       97.2            95.9-100.0

 

                                          On Feed      Placed     Marketed

                                          March 1   in February  in February

 

A&A Trading, Inc.                    101.0       97.0       98.5

AG Edwards & Sons                 103.0      104.0       98.0

Allendale Inc.                         102.3       99.3       97.1

Alaron Trading Corp.               102.1       98.6       96.5

Bob Price-No. Amer.               102.2       97.7       95.9

Cargill Investor Services         102.2      100.5       97.5

Crystal River Capital               103.0      106.0       98.0

Frontier Risk Management        101.5       96.5       98.8

HedgersEdge.com/RJ O'Brien   101.4       96.6       97.5

Kropf and Love Consulting       103.0      107.5      100.0

Livestock Marketing Info Ctr    101.9       97.3       96.8

Midwest Market Solutions         102.3       97.5       98.2

University of Missouri               101.7       99.4       96.3

US Commodities                     102.0       97.0       97.0

 

Source: USDA