
Live cattle futures are showing steady trade on Friday, with contracts within 15 cents of unchanged. Cash trade has been mostly $372 dressed as well as a few live sales of $235-236. The Thursday morning Fed Cattle Exchange online auction showed sales of $235-236 on 183 of the 762 head offered, with other bids of $230-235. Feeder cattle futures are showing 35 cent to $1.57 losses in the front months. The CME Feeder Cattle Index was down another $3.83 to $360.97 on March 11.
The weekly APHIS update on New World Screwworm showed 9 new cases (7 in cattle) in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, which took the total to 23 active cases in the bordering state (15 in cattle).