Market Activity & Analysis

Outstanding Export Sales

Tables 1 and 2 below show the total outstanding cured hide and wet blue export sales by selected countries through June 18. Through Week 25, the total outstanding sales are 4.808 million from 4.568 million the prior week. With the same period average weekly slaughter at 584,196 head, the cumulative outstanding sales represent 8.23 weeks of production from 7.85 the previous week.

Table 1 & 2.

Today’s Market

It was another day with limited, repeated reports. The exception was the Heavy Native Dairy Steers which fell from $27 per piece to a range of $19 to $22. 

Today’s Trades

[HIDE-SALES]

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