Oklahoma Cattle on Feed down 9 percent

The Oklahoma inventory of cattle on feed for feedlots with capacity of 1,000 or more head, totaled 320 thousand head on July 1, 2012, unchanged from the previous month but down 9 percent from July 1, 2011.

Placements during June were 53,000, down 15 percent from one year ago. Marketings of fed cattle during June were 51,000 head, down 22 percent from the same month last year. Other disappearance during June totaled 2,000 head.

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