Tuesday, September 27, 2016 - Packer Day
As the live cattle futures fell hard again (October down the 300 pt limit), cattle buyers became defense once again and prices fell by 3.00 to 3.50 compared to last week. Today's top was 106.75 on steers and 105.00 on heifers.| Slaughter Steers | |||
| Choice 2-4 | 102.00-105.75 | ||
| High Yielding | 106.00-106.75 | ||
| Low Yielding | 100.00-101.75 | ||
| Mixed Select/Choice 2-3 | 98.00-101.50 | ||
| Select 1-2 | 98.00/down | ||
| Few heavy wts. 1685-1820# | |||
| returning to farm for more feed | 90.00-111.75 | ||
| Slaughter Heifers | |||
| Choice 2-4 | 102.00-105.00 | ||
| High Yielding | - | ||
| Low Yielding | 97.00-101.25 | ||
| Mixed Select Choice 2-3 | 97.75-100.00 | ||
| Select 1-2 | 93.00/down | ||
| Few fed hfrettes | 84.00-97.00 | ||
| Several fancy steers & heifers | |||
| returning to farm for more | |||
| feed - 925-1100# | 90.00-111.75 | ||
| Slaughter Cows - | High yield | Avg. Yield | Low Yield |
| Premium White | 83.50 | 78.50 | |
| Breakers-1300-1800# | 69.00-72.25 | 65.50-68.50 | 65.00/down |
| Boners 1200-1600# | 70.00-74.00 | 67.25-69.50 | 66.00/down |
| Lean 1000-1400# | 67.50-70.00 | 62.50-66.50 | 61.75/down |
| Slaughter Bulls - | High yield | Avg. Yield | Low Yield |
| 95.25 | 85.00-90.00 | 83.00/down | |