Cash cattle business is finished for the week. Trade that developed across the North on Thursday afternoon appeared to be enough to take care of needed cleanup activity. The uncertainty of how the futures market rally Friday will affect cash markets early next week will create more questions than answers for packers and feed yard managers to contemplate over the weekend. The weekly cattle kill was estimated at 609,000 head, 3,000 smaller than last week, but 11,000 greater than last year.
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