At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, live cattle closed higher with boxed beef higher at midday. Feeder cattle were mostly modestly higher on the mostly fractionally lower move in corn. February live was up $.92 at $155.77 and April was $0.77 higher at $159.70. January feeders were $.72 higher at $183.77 and March was up $0.02 at $184.70.

It was a relatively quiet Friday for direct cash cattle business with just some scattered cleanup deals across all areas. 

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