Market Activity

Trading was very quiet this afternoon, many sellers were reporting that they were sold out for the week. The sole action today was 7 trucks of ruminant MBM, traded this morning out of the Panhandle market. 

The USDA released the annual poultry slaughter figures yesterday afternoon, showing a 1.8% percent increase from 2014 in the total number of chickens slaughtered. Turkey numbers were down by 1.8% or 4.2 million head from 2014. The turkey losses can…