Market Activity & Analysis

Week-Ending Slaughter

The week’s estimated cattle slaughter was 632,000. The previous week’s kill was 622,000 and the corresponding week last year it was 602,000. Year-to-date slaughter at 25,568,000 is up 5.8% from 2016.

Today’s Market

There was a decent amount of action today, but most were calling the market a steady shade of slow. Sources again indicated that…