A quiet start to Friday for direct cash cattle trade following the light to moderate business that’s taken place this week.  Asking prices for cattle left on showlists are around $124 plus live in the South and $200 plus dressed in the North.  The bulk of the week’s business has wrapped up, but there could be some cleanup trade trickle in sometime Friday. Live deals this week have been at mostly $123 to $124, steady with last week’s weighted averages, while dressed deals in the North were mostly $200, down $1 from the weighted average basis for Nebraska.

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