It’s a typically quiet start to the week for direct cash cattle trade activity.  Buyers and sellers are busy taking inventory.  Bids and asking prices have yet to surface and it’s likely significant trade volume is going to hold out until at least Midweek or later.  Deals last week were marked at $288 to $294.75, mostly $288 to $291 dressed in the North, about $2 lower to $1 higher than the previous week’s business.  Southern live deals were marked at mostly $182, about $1 lower than the prior week’s weighted averages. 

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