Jan 16, 2025 · Beef/Cattle: Based on preliminary December slaughter data, expected fourth-quarter 2024 production has been lowered from last month, bringing the annual total to 26.985 billion pounds. The beef production forecast in 2025 has been raised to 25.790 billion pounds due to heavier expected carcass weights and higher anticipated fed cattle marketings.

Jan 8, 2025 · The U.S. industry is roughly divided into two production sectors: cow-calf operations and cattle feeding. Because the cattle/beef industry depends on feed grains, grain supplies and prices affect beef production. For a comprehensive overview of the cattle and beef industry, including production, policy, and trade, see Sector at a Glance.

Jan 28, 2025 · The Livestock & Meat Domestic Data contains current and historical data on pork, beef, veal, and poultry, including production, supply, utilization, and farm prices.

Jan 8, 2025 · 1 Cattle shipments from Canada to the United States may include animals transshipped through Canada from Hawaii or Alaska. Source: USDA, Economic Research Service calculations using data from U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census.

Jan 8, 2025 · About 28 percent of the cattle imported from Canada went to U.S. feedlot operations. Lastly, less than 2 percent of cattle imported from Canada were used for breeding. U.S. cattle exports to Canada and Mexico vary from year to year across both the total numbers exported and the relative percentages exported to each country.

5 days ago · ZIP file contains two CSV files: one with export data and one with import data. Files include monthly and annual data for live cattle, hogs, sheep, and goats, as well as beef and veal, pork, lamb and mutton, chicken meat, turkey meat, and eggs. Download ZIP. Last Updated 2/6/2025; Next Update 3/7/2025

Jan 25, 2024 · What’s more, extended periods of operating under capacity affect company strategies, as packers and their cattle buyers develop routines to persistently search and bid aggressively for additional cattle to run through the plant. During the industry’s late 20th century consolidation, U.S. beef consumption and production grew slowly.

Aug 26, 2024 · Rural residence farms held 23 percent of the total U.S. beef cow inventory that year. On these farms, 87 percent of the total farm production value was from cattle (see chart below). Seventy-three percent were cow-calf only, which means they sold their calves shortly after weaning instead of keeping them for subsequent phases of cattle production.

5 days ago · Cash receipts for animals and animal products totaled $249.6 billion in calendar year 2023. Cattle/calf receipts accounted for $101.1 billion (40.5 percent) of that total, while poultry and eggs receipts accounted for $67.1 billion (26.9 percent), and dairy receipts accounted for $45.9 billion (18.4 percent).

Jan 7, 2025 · Under the MPR, certain livestock packers and processors who annually slaughter an average of 125,000 cattle, 100,000 swine, or 75,000 lambs are required to report to USDA all transactions involving livestock purchases, domestic and export sales of boxed beef cuts, and sales of boxed lamb cuts and lamb carcasses.