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USDA NASS Cattle on Feed monthly placements

Monthly cattle placed on feed, marketings, on-feed inventory by state

Feed detail
Measures
Monthly cattle placed on feed, marketings, on-feed inventory by state
Source
USDA NASS Quick Stats API (quickstats.nass.usda.gov/api)
Access
json-api
Cadence
monthlyupdates roughly monthly
Thesis
Placement trends lead live cattle futures by predicting slaughter supply 4-6 months out
Maps to
CME live cattle / feeder cattle futures
Crowdedness
contested
Tier
tA
Ban-risk
ban:none
Where this stands

This is a catalogued data feed with a research idea attached, not a validated edge. Being listed here means it has a specific source and a one-sentence causal mechanism mapped to what it should move — it doesn’t mean it has cleared the five-stage validation gate (point-in-time hygiene, out-of-sample holdout, multiple-testing correction, and the portfolio-layer backstop). As of today, every score on this site is prior-only; zero signals in the catalog have been promoted to “measured” status. See the methodology page for the full validation process and current counts.

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