Cattle Current Market Update with Wes Ishmael
Sep 16, 2026 · 5 min · 5 segments
Cattle futures softened further Wednesday, pressured by bearish outside markets, and likely profit taking as traders await the week’s negotiated cash fed cattle direction. Toward the close, Live…
Wes IshmaelHost
Cattle futures softened further Wednesday, pressured by bearish outside markets and likely profit-taking as traders awaited the week's negotiated cash-fed cattle direction.
Toward the close, live cattle futures were an average of $2.79 lower and feeder cattle futures were an average of $5.10 lower.
Negotiated cash-fed cattle trade was mostly inactive on light demand in the north through Wednesday afternoon, according to the Agricultural Marketing Service.
Choice box beef cut-out value was $0.27 lower Wednesday afternoon and at $375.81 a hundredweight.
Grain and soybean futures were mixed on Wednesday, with some likely pressure from producer selling.
Through late afternoon and through the front four contracts, soybean futures were mostly 2 to 3 cents higher, corn futures were 1 to 2 cents lower, and Kansas City wheat futures were 2 to 5 cents higher.
Cavs and feeder cattle prices were mainly higher at the weekly Wednesday auctions monitored by CattleCurrent.
A day earlier, steer calves sold $10 to $20 higher and heifer calves sold $15 to $25 higher.
At Hub City Livestock Auction in Aberdeen, South Dakota, steers weighing 950 to 999 pounds sold $10 to $12 higher and then $20 to $24 higher at 1,000 to 1,099 pounds.
Feeder steers and heifers weighing more than 650 pounds sold $10 to $15 higher at Winter Livestock in Dodge City where there were 2,484 head.
Finally, steers and heifers sold with higher undertones at Bloomfield Livestock Auction in Iowa, where there were 1,801 hit.
Cattle futures softened further Wednesday, pressured by bearish outside markets and likely profit-taking as traders awaited the week's negotiated cash-fed cattle direction.
Toward the close, live cattle futures were an average of $2.79 lower and feeder cattle futures were an average of $5.10 lower.
Negotiated cash-fed cattle trade was mostly inactive on light demand in the north through Wednesday afternoon, according to the Agricultural Marketing Service.
Choice box beef cut-out value was $0.27 lower Wednesday afternoon and at $375.81 a hundredweight.
Grain and soybean futures were mixed on Wednesday, with some likely pressure from producer selling.
Through late afternoon and through the front four contracts, soybean futures were mostly 2 to 3 cents higher, corn futures were 1 to 2 cents lower, and Kansas City wheat futures were 2 to 5 cents higher.
Cavs and feeder cattle prices were mainly higher at the weekly Wednesday auctions monitored by CattleCurrent.
A day earlier, steer calves sold $10 to $20 higher and heifer calves sold $15 to $25 higher.
At Hub City Livestock Auction in Aberdeen, South Dakota, steers weighing 950 to 999 pounds sold $10 to $12 higher and then $20 to $24 higher at 1,000 to 1,099 pounds.
Feeder steers and heifers weighing more than 650 pounds sold $10 to $15 higher at Winter Livestock in Dodge City where there were 2,484 head.
Finally, steers and heifers sold with higher undertones at Bloomfield Livestock Auction in Iowa, where there were 1,801 hit.
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