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South Dakota Cattle on Feed Up 9 Percent
South Dakota Ag Connection - 06/27/2016

South Dakota feedlots, with capacities of 1,000 or more head, contained 250,000 cattle on feed on June 1, according to the USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service. This inventory is up 9 percent from last year. Placements during May totaled 29,000 head, unchanged from 2015.

Fed cattle marketings for the month of May totaled 40,000 head, up 8 percent from last year.

Other disappearance during May totaled 4,000 head, up 2,000 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 June 1, 2016. The inventory was 2 percent above June 1, 2015.

Placements in feedlots during May totaled 1.88 million head, 10 percent above 2015. Net placements were 1.81 million head. During May, placements of cattle and calves weighing less than 600 pounds were 305,000 head, 600-699 pounds were 250,000 head, 700-799 pounds were 479,000 head, and 800 pounds and greater were 850,000 head.

Marketings of fed cattle during May totaled 1.79 million head, 5 percent above 2015.

Other disappearance totaled 74,000 head during May, 4 percent below 2015.


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