Monthly Reports
Nebraska Cattle on Feed down 2 percent
Nebraska feedlots, with capacities of 1,000 or more head, contained 2.01 million cattle on feed on September 1, according to USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service, Nebraska Field Office. The inventory was down 2 percent from last year.
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Kansas Cattle on Feed up 1 percent
The number of cattle on feed on September 1, 2011 in Kansas feedlots with 1,000 head or more capacity totaled 2.21 million head, up less than 1 percent from last year and up 1 percent from August 1, 2011. Placements during August totaled 520,000 head, down 15 percent from a year ago and down 10 percent from July 2011 placements of 580,000 head.
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Colorado Cattle on Feed up 11 percent
The number of cattle and calves on feed for the slaughter market in Colorado feedlots with a capacity of 1,000 head or larger was estimated at 990,000 head as of September 1, 2011. The latest inventory was up 11 percent from September 1, 2010, and up 2 percent from the previous month.
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Cold Storage: Beef in freezers up 11 percent from last year
Total red meat supplies in freezers were up slightly from the previous month and up 11 percent from last year.
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Cold Storage: Red meat in freezers up 11 percent from last year
Total red meat supplies in freezers were down 6 percent from the previous month but up 11 percent from last year. Total pounds of beef in freezers were down 3 percent from the previous month but up 8 percent from last year.
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Heavy placements of cattle on feed portend future beef production
The USDA's latest Livestock, Dairy and Poultry outlook reports that during the first half of 2011, net placements were 2 percent above placements for the first half of 2010 as drought has pushed cattle off pastures in many parts of the country, and most of these feeder cattle have gone into feedlots.
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WASDE: Cattle prices expected higher as beef forecast declines
Small changes are made to the 2011 forecast of total red meat production. Beef production is reduced slightly.
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USDA: Beef production, cattle slaughter climb 2%
Beef production, at 2.37 billion pounds, was 2 percent above the previous year. Cattle slaughter totaled 3.10 million head, up 2 percent from June 2010. The average live weight was up 1 pound from the previous year, at 1,262 pounds.
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Beef production and average live weight above last year’s totals
Beef production, at 2.13 billion pounds, was 2 percent above the previous year.
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Total red meat supplies in freezers up 21 percent from last year
Total red meat supplies in freezers were up 1 percent from the previous month and up 21 percent from last year.
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2012 cattle prices expected to increase above 2011 levels
Total U.S. meat production in 2012 is projected to be about unchanged from 2011 as lower beef production largely offsets higher pork and poultry production.
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- 3,000 pounds of copper wire stolen from Oklahoma ranch
- Changes in U.S.-Mexican cattle and beef trade
- Crude oil expected to peak and cost of electricity to go down
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- E. coli test leads to National Beef recall
