SJ_LS713 St. Joseph, MO Thu May 16, 2013 USDA Market News Service U.S. Federally Inspected Slaughter By Region Week Ending 05/04/2013 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Standard Cattle Calves federal ------------------------------------------------------------------- regions Total Dairy Other Total 1/ Steers Heifers cows cows Bulls -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1,000 head 1 0.3 0.1 0.1 - - 0.1 0.1 2 1.3 0.4 0.1 0.5 0.1 0.1 2.5 3 18.7 5.0 1.4 9.3 2.3 0.6 2.5 4 14.7 0.8 0.4 2.7 8.4 2.4 0.1 5 75.5 32.4 7.5 (D) (D) (D) 4.1 6 103.6 50.2 28.3 5.5 17.1 2.5 0.1 7 272.4 150.3 104.4 (D) (D) (D) - 8 64.4 38.9 20.6 (D) (D) (D) - 9 45.1 18.4 4.3 15.3 6.3 0.9 3.0 10 26.2 14.7 6.6 3.4 1.1 0.4 0.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- U.S. 2/ 622.3 311.2 173.7 55.8 70.1 11.5 12.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Standard Hogs Sheep federal ------------------------------------------------------------------- regions Total Barrows Total Mature Lambs and 1/ and gilts Sows Boars sheep yearlings -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1,000 head 1 0.3 0.3 - - 1.7 - 1.7 2 2.5 2.4 - - 7.1 0.5 6.6 3 95.4 95.2 0.2 - 4.5 1.0 3.5 4 283.7 274.6 7.9 1.2 1.5 0.4 1.0 5 593.4 563.4 28.5 1.5 10.1 0.6 9.5 6 105.2 103.6 1.5 - 0.8 0.2 0.6 7 869.0 850.6 14.7 3.7 0.2 - 0.2 8 92.8 92.5 0.2 - 17.9 0.4 17.5 9 42.0 42.0 - - 6.0 0.1 5.9 10 6.5 6.5 - - 0.4 - 0.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- U.S. 2/ 2,090.6 2,031.2 53.1 6.4 50.3 3.3 47.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Represents zero. (D) Withheld to avoid disclosing individual operations. 1/ States included in regions are as follows 1- CT, ME, NH, VT, MA & RI; 2- NY & NJ; 3- DE-MD, PA, WV & VA; 4- AL, FL, GA, KY, MS, NC, SC & TN; 5- IL, IN, MI, MN, OH & WI; 6- AR, LA, NM, OK & TX; 7- IA, KS, MO & NE; 8- CO, MT, ND, SD, UT & WY; 9- AZ, CA, HI & NV; 10- AK, ID, OR & WA. 2/ Totals may not add due to rounding. A region may not be published due to confidentiality, but is included in totals. Source: USDA Market News Service, St Joseph, MO (816)-676-7000 e-mail: stjoe.lgmn@ams.usda.gov www.ams.usda.gov/mnreports/sj_ls713.txt www.ams.usda.gov/lsmarketnews