What happened this week: If you are a fundamentally positive person and an optimist, it was possible to trace some of the improved activity expected for this week. However, if you were in a miserable mood, it was the same as the week before.

Basically there was no sign of any real ‘after holiday’ activity yet. And so one ended up hopping from one smaller sale to another and at the end of the week it added up to what must be called a satisfactory for the time of the year. It was nothing special, but neither was it the ‘zero’ event which can easily happen in the first half of August. There was no particular interest, nor were any market segments especially active and sales were across the board. Some lights, some cows, some heifers, some bulls were sold and consequently it was really coincidental. When it came to European tanners returning from their holidays or operating from the beach who had to deal with higher asking prices for heavy male hides due to the increases paid at the abattoirs, the range of reactions covered almost everything except friendliness and happiness!

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