At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, live cattle were mixed and feeders were mostly lower adjusting spreads. April live cattle closed $.70 lower at $146.17 and June live cattle closed $.47 lower at $141.12. March feeder cattle closed $.50 lower at $166.22 and April feeder cattle closed $1.05 lower at $170.70.
It was a quiet end to the week for direct cash cattle trade activity following a couple of back-to-back days of light to moderate business.