South Dakota Ag Connection - S.D. Cattle on Feed Up 2 Percent from Last Year

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S.D. Cattle on Feed Up 2 Percent from Last Year
South Dakota Ag Connection - 07/25/2016

South Dakota feedlots, with capacities of 1,000 or more head, contained 235,000 cattle on feed on July 1, according to the USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service. This inventory is up 2 percent from last year. Placements during June totaled 24,000 head, down 14 percent from 2015.

Fed cattle marketings for the month of June totaled 36,000 head, up 38 percent from last year.

Other disappearance during June totaled 3,000 head, up 1,000 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 10.4 million head on July 1, 2016. The inventory was 1 percent above July 1, 2015. The inventory included 6.87 million steers and steer calves, down 1 percent from the previous year. This group accounted for 66 percent of the total inventory. Heifers and heifer calves accounted for 3.49 million head, up 5 percent from 2015.

Placements in feedlots during June totaled 1.53 million head, 3 percent above 2015. Net placements were 1.46 million head. During June, placements of cattle and calves weighing less than 600 pounds were 290,000 head, 600-699 pounds were 255,000 head, 700799 pounds were 340,000 head, and 800 pounds and greater were 640,000 head.

Marketings of fed cattle during June totaled 1.91 million head, 9 percent above 2015.

Other disappearance totaled 61,000 head during June, 12 percent below 2015.

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