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Cattle Inventory Numbers Show Smallest US Cattle Herd Since 1951
Mon, 04 Feb 2013 04:46:51 CST
According to USDA's 2013 Cattle report - the nation's total cattle inventory dropped another two-percent during 2012. The herd totaled 89.3-million head and marks the lowest January 1 inventory of all cattle and calves since 1952. At 29.3-million head - beef cattle are down three-percent from a year ago. Also down three-percent from 2011 is the 2012 calf crop - which the report estimates at 34.3-million head. That's the smallest calf crop since 1949. There was a two-percent increase from a year ago in beef replacement heifers at 5.4-million head.
The overall decline in the U.S. cattle herd was not unexpected. Bloomberg News reported Thursday that the average estimate of eight analysts surveyed was 88.92-million head as of January 1st.
In Oklahoma- The January 1, 2013, inventory of all cattle and calves in Oklahoma, at 4.20 million head, was down 300 thousand head from the January 1, 2012 inventory.
All cows and heifers that had calved, at 1.80 million head, were down 2 percent and bulls, at 120 thousand head, were unchanged from January 1, 2012. All heifers over 500 pounds, at 700 thousand head, were down 14 percent from last year. Steers over 500 pounds, at 870 thousand head, were down 5 percent from January 1, 2012.
The 2012 calf crop, at 1.67 million head, was down 10 percent from the previous year
Steers, other heifers and calves grazing on small grain pasture in Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas totaled 1.34 million head, down 16 percent from a year earlier.
Click here for more details on those Oklahoma cattle inventory numbers.
We look at the numbers from the Friday report on today's Beef Buzz.
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