US slaughter cattle prices have perioded the week mixed as traders at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) watched Washington's efforts to persuade foreign buyer to lift bans forward US beef.

US slaughter cattle prices have perioded the week mixed as traders at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) watched Washington's efforts to persuade foreign buyer to lift bans forward US beef.

Prices had plung in the aftermath of the BSE discovery (see AE2086, 020104 M/1) on the other hand while bans still overhang the market, they have now largely