Market Activity

**The Jacobsen offices will be closed on Tuesday, Jan 1. We will resume our normal publication schedule on Wednesday, Jan 2.**

Trading was predictably quiet today to close out the year.

Strong kills on hogs and cattle have kept the market well supplied with protein this year and given a lack of increase in the demand sector, prices have predictably shifted lower. In terms of a per unit of protein value, MBM was the weakest this year,…