At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, live cattle futures were mostly lower and feeders were mixed ahead of the week’s direct business. Contracts began the week with steep losses on the discovery of a human case of New World screwworm but eased up by midsession, and some far off deferred live cattle contracts were even able […]
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