At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, live and feeder cattle futures were sharply higher, buying back part of the recent losses, with help from the midday gains in boxed beef. However, this was just a part of those recent losses and contracts closed below the session highs due to the recent sharply lower cash business. December […]
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