Cash cattle trade is unsurprisingly quiet this morning with the week’s trade mostly wrapped up. Asking prices for cattle left on showlsits are around $138 live in the South and $225 dressed in the North. Southern deals this week have come in mostly $1 lower than last week’s weighted averages at $137 while Northern dressed trade has taken place mostly at $223, $3 lower than last week’s weighted average basis in Nebraska.

Boxed beef is higher at midday.

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