LATE January and early February is a notoriously tight period for the domestic wholesale beef trade, as holiday bills and return-to-school fees start to burden the typical family budget. Despite some lack of consumer confidence over economic, political and trade issues like this, the domestic wholesale meat trade had a reasonably solid Christmas/New Year holiday period, trade contacts reported to Beef Central this morning. Uncertainty impacts confidence“The problem currently for the domestic market outlook is that processors really do not know what lies ahead. All this uncertainty ultimately affects domestic beef wholesale prices as well,” he said. I personally don’t think filling the China quota will cause any issues in terms of excess supply on the domestic market.”