Nebraska Cattle On Feed Up 3 Percent
10/16/2009 02:50PM
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Nebraska feedlots, with capacities of 1,000 or more head, contained almost 2.2 million cattle on feed on October 1, according to USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service, Nebraska Field Office. The inventory was up 3 percent from last year.
Placements in feedlots during September totaled 550,000 head, the same as last year.
Marketings of fed cattle during September totaled 395,000 head, up 1 percent from last year. These were the most marketed during September since the series began in 1993. Other disappearance during September totaled 5,000 head, compared with 10,000 head a year ago.