Most other meat and livestock prices also rose, while oil fell modestly.

As a result, cereal prices rose to record levels while livestock prices and wages fell, reducing purchasing power across the region.

Most livestock prices also dropped as the torrid weather over much of the nation cut consumer demand for meat.

We had unemployment, low grain and livestock prices, drought and grasshoppers destroying the farm economy for years.

Oddly, livestock prices, which usually decline when feed prices go up, made moderate gains.

The improved weather, as well as some technical market factors, left livestock prices mixed at the close.

Crops have been good and livestock prices excellent.

On other commodity markets, livestock prices fell while heating oil prices rose.

On other markets, precious metals continued sliding, livestock prices were mixed, meat was higher and energy futures rose.

Witnesses for the union testified that some of the losses were related to market conditions, including a shortage of hogs and high livestock prices.