date:Jan 22, 2014
f prices have risen over $15 per hundredweight in the past week.
Most-active feeder-cattle futures for March added 0.4 cent, or 0.2%, to $1.6832 a pound. The January contract declined.
Hog futures ended mixed, lifted in some contracts by buying across the livestock complex. February hogs shed 0.2 cent, or 0.2%, to 85.97 cents a pound. That contract was pressured by the nearly six-cent premium of the front-month futures to recent cash market prices.
April hogs, meanwhile, ended 0.47 cent highe