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Iowa packers bought cattle at $223-224 live early in the week while Nebraska sellers traded lower at $225 live and $350-355 dressed, with live sales $3-4 lower and dressed $5-10 lower. Live futures fell sharply, and some southern owners accepted $225 bids.
Weekly slaughter was 543,000 head, 3,000 below the prior week and 14,000 below last year.
Lower cash fed cattle prices and steady slaughter pace point to softer live cattle values, which weighs on feedlot margins and feeder cattle demand for feed buyers.
cattlereport.agcenter.comNov 1, 2026Not enough comparable past events yet for a historical read.
Moves of each commodity's benchmark from the last close before the event. Historical reads pool past events of the same kind; they describe what happened, not what will. Not investment advice.
