 On the livestock side, opening calls for cattle are higher and hogs are higher to mix. The holiday shortened week impacted the cash cattle trading activity, but the Packers did not make up for one less day of cash trading by stepping up on Friday. Limited trading took place even though the Packers seemed short-bought coming into the week. Cash cattle traded late Friday with prices in the south at $1.90 and dress cattle in the north at $3.14 and mostly steady with the previous week. We'll look at the numbers next.