{"id":559424,"date":"2026-07-20T18:33:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T18:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/559424\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T18:33:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T18:33:11","slug":"limited-volumes-lift-prairie-feeder-cattle-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/559424\/","title":{"rendered":"Limited volumes lift Prairie feeder cattle market"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the week ending July 11, western Canadian feeder cattle prices were $5-$10 per hundredweight higher on average compared to the last full week of June.<\/p>\n

Southern Alberta feedlot operators focused on local cattle providing market leadership for the western Canadian locations.<\/p>\n

However, feedlots were stepping forward more aggressively on backgrounded cattle with ideas that yearlings off grass will be hard to buy in August.<\/p>\n

The calf market for July was hard to define because of limited numbers on offer, but there are quality packages surfacing for fall delivery. U.S. feeder cattle prices were down $5-$10 per cwt. on average compared to a two weeks earlier.<\/p>\n

Alberta packers were buying fed cattle in the range of $580-$592 per cwt. delivered, down $10 per cwt. on average from 14 days earlier. Wholesale beef prices have dropped sharply over the past couple of weeks as the retail market rations demand.<\/p>\n

At the Ponoka sale, 32 black steers weighing 1,054 pounds coming off a diet of corn silage and grain screening pellets with full processing records (including March implants) sold for $446 per cwt.<\/p>\n

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At the Perlich sale near Lethbridge, a group of 41 black medium flesh backgrounded steers averaging 920 lb. sold for $497 per cwt., 27 medium-flesh backgrounded black steers weighing 847 lb. traded for $530 per cwt. and 14 medium flesh Black Angus heifers with a mean weight of 874 lb. were valued at $477 per cwt.<\/p>\n

At the same location, a group of 74 black Angus backgrounded heifers carrying some flesh and evaluated at 822 lb. notched the board at $481 per cwt.<\/p>\n

Inflationary pressures noted<\/p>\n

For October delivery, The TEAM video auction included a group of 90 Charolais cross steers averaging 680 lb. and coming off their mothers and grass with full processing records and implants that were valued at $633 per cwt. f.o.b. feedlot near Pine Lake, Alta.<\/p>\n

The NCL market report from Clyde had a group of black replacement heifers weighing 874 lb. that sold for $506 per cwt. At the same location, Simmental-based cow-calf pairs reached up to $9,900 per pair.<\/p>\n

Alberta feedlot operators have bid up the price of feeder cattle so that margins in the first quarter of 2027 are under water by $400-$500 per head based on the deferred live cattle futures. It\u2019s hard to justify additional upside for feeder cattle markets, given the risk-reward scenario.<\/p>\n

U.S. feeder markets are under pressure as Kansas feedlot margins move into negative territory in September.<\/p>\n

The feeder market has divorced from live cattle prices for the time being.<\/p>\n

Cattle on feed 150 days or more are sharply above year-ago levels in Alberta and Saskatchewan. At the same time, the weekly slaughter is coming in lower than anticipated.<\/p>\n

Recent economic indicators reflect a consumer cutting back on discretionary and food spending due to inflationary pressures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the week ending July 11, western Canadian feeder cattle prices were $5-$10 per hundredweight higher on average…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":559425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2522,236525,233732,60233,20497,72,233733,233734,236526,233736,233737,233738,236527,61,60,60239,236528,236529,123,1958],"class_list":["post-559424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-alberta","tag-auction-markets","tag-beef-demand","tag-beef-markets","tag-beef-prices","tag-business","tag-cattle-markets","tag-fed-cattle","tag-feeder-calves","tag-feeder-cattle","tag-feeder-cattle-market","tag-feeder-cattle-prices","tag-feeder-markets","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jerry-klassen","tag-live-cattle","tag-livestock-markets","tag-markets","tag-saskatchewan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}