Outstanding Export Sales
Tables 1 and 2 below show the total outstanding cured hide and wet blue export sales by selected countries through April 23. Through Week 17, the total outstanding sales are 4.883 million from at 4.902 million the prior week. With the same period average weekly slaughter at 596,668 head, the cumulative outstanding sales represent 8.18 weeks of production from 8.09 the previous week.
Table 1 & 2.
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