Agri Business Updates with Chad Moyer
Friday's Cattle on Feed & Milk Production reports
Posted by Chad
U.S. Cattle on Feed Down 1 Percent
    
Cattle and calves on feed for slaughter market in the United States for feedlots with capacity of 1,000 or more head totaled 9.9 million head on September 1, 2009.  The inventory was 1 percent below September 1, 2008.  Prereport estimates had the on feed number at 98.5% of a year ago.  

Placements in feedlots during August totaled 2.11 million, 2 percent above 2008.  Net placements were 2.06 million head.  Prereport expectations were around a one percent increase from last year.  During August, placements of cattle and calves weighing less than 600 pounds were 425,000, 600-699 pounds were 395,000, 700-799 pounds were 515,000, and 800 pounds and greater were 775,000.  

Marketings of fed cattle during August totaled 1.81 million, 4 percent below 2008.  This is the lowest fed cattle marketings for the month of August since the series began in 1996.  The prereport guess was a marketings number at 95.3% of last year.  

Major cattle states:  NE        KS      TX      CO      IA
(% of last year)
On Feed                  103      98      97      112      109
Placements            103       106     98      108     103
Marketings               89       94       96      115     97

Other disappearance totaled 55,000 during August, 12 percent above 2008.  More numbers here... http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/usda/current/CattOnFe/CattOnFe-09-18-2009.txt .   



August Milk Production down 0.2 Percent
                        
Milk production in the 23 major States during August totaled 14.6 billion pounds, down 0.2 percent from August 2008.  July revised production at 14.8 billion pounds, was down slightly from July 2008.  The July revision represented a decrease of 13 million pounds or 0.1 percent from last month's preliminary production estimate.  Production per cow in the 23 major States averaged 1,743 pounds for August, 25 pounds above August 2008.  The number of milk cows on farms in the 23 major States was 8.37 million head, 143,000 head less than August 2008, and 28,000 head less than July 2009.

In the top five dairy production states, production was mixed.  California -4.5%, Wisconsin +3.7%, Idaho -2.7%, New York +0.2%, and Pennsylvania +0.7%.  Click here for the latest state by state numbers... http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/usda/current/MilkProd/MilkProd-08-18-2009.txt .