At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, live and feeder cattle were lower ahead of Friday’s On Feed numbers from the UDSA.
It’ was a pretty quiet day for direct cash cattle business on Friday. There was some scattered cleanup trade. Live deals in the North were at $187. For the week, northern dressed deals were marked at mostly $294, about $2 higher than the prior week’s weighted averages. Live deals in the South were at $184 to $185, $1 to $2 higher than the previous week’s business.
