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Boxed Beef and Finished Cattle Prices Continued Their Downslide Last Week - Audio with Ed Czerwien, USDA Market News Office, Amarillo, Texas
Mon, 09 Apr 2012 16:05:53 CDT
In this week's beef report, according to Ed Czerwien, USDA Market News Office in Amarillo, Texas, said we saw the choice cut market end the week of April 7 down once again. Choice ended the week at $177.91 cwt, down over $5.00 from the previous Friday. The total load volume was good but half of the 1,058 loads consisted of trimmings.
As far as the finished cattle trade last week, the trend was three to four dollars lower than the previous week with business in the Southern Plains mostly at the $121 to $122 cwt mark. Business was mostly $193 to $194 cwt in the meat.
The average live weight of the cattle harvest from the Texas Panhandle was 1,232 pounds, up 8 pounds from the previous week.
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