It’s a typically quiet Friday for direct cash cattle trade activity.  The bulk of the week’s business is likely wrapped up, but some cleanup trade could trickle in before the end of the day.  Asking prices for cattle left on showlists are around $151-plus live in the South and $244-plus dressed in the North.  For the week, Southern live deals were marked at mostly $150, fully steady with the prior week’s weighted averages.  Northern dressed business was at mostly $242, $2 above the previous week’s weighted average basis in Nebraska. 

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