DTN Closing Livestock Comment 05/12 15:39
   Traders Push the Livestock Contracts Sharply Higher

   With more than enough outside support, the livestock contracts were able to
close higher.

ShayLe Stewart
DTN Livestock Analyst

GENERAL COMMENTS:

   The livestock contracts received ample support throughout the day, which
helped all three of the market's round out the day higher. New showlists appear
to be lower in all major feeding states. May corn is down 1 1/4 cents per
bushel and May soybean meal is up $3.90. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is up
1,160.72 points and the NASDAQ is up 779.42 points.