DTN Closing Livestock Comment 04/07 15:16
   Mostly Weaker Tones Follow the Livestock Complex Through Tuesday's Close

   The livestock contracts closed mostly lower Tuesday afternoon as traders
want to see greater fundamental support before pushing the contracts any
higher.

ShayLe Stewart
DTN Livestock Analyst

GENERAL COMMENTS:

   The livestock complex closed mostly lower Tuesday afternoon as traders yearn
to see what will develop fundamentally this week before they'll likely advance
the contracts any higher. Still no cash cattle trade has developed and asking
prices remain elusive at this point. May corn is down 5 cents per bushel and
May soybean meal is down $4.80. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is down 127.25
points and the NASDAQ is down 32.55 points.