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South Dakota Cattle on Feed Up 10 Percent from 2015
South Dakota Ag Connection - 05/23/2016

South Dakota feedlots, with capacities of 1,000 or more head, contained 265,000 cattle on feed on May 1, according to the USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service. This inventory is up 10 percent from last year.

Placements during April totaled 24,000 head, down 14 percent from 2015.

Fed cattle marketings for the month of April totaled 22,000 head, up 5 percent from last year. Other disappearance during April totaled 2,000 head, unchanged from last year.

Cattle and calves on feed for the slaughter market in the United States for feedlots with capacity of 1,000 or more head totaled 10.8 million head on May 1, 2016. The inventory was 1 percent above May 1, 2015. Placements in feedlots during April totaled 1.66 million head, 7 percent above 2015. Net placements were 1.59 million head. During April, placements of cattle and calves weighing less than 600 pounds were 334,000 head, 600-699 pounds were 225,000 head, 700-799 pounds were 390,000 head, and 800 pounds and greater were 715,000 head.

Marketings of fed cattle during April totaled 1.66 million head, 1 percent above 2015.

Other disappearance totaled 76,000 head during April, 15 percent above 2015.


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