Still plenty of financial life blood in the mart trade

Prices for younger or lesser conformation animals have eased, but as one mart manager said to me, “Money is the life blood and there’s still plenty of it about.”

Or as Mark Twain said (he wrote the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer), “Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated”, upon hearing his obituary had appeared in an American newspaper.

That same sentiment could be used this week to describe the mart trade.