SJ_LS714 St. Joseph, MO Thu May 23, 2013 USDA Market News Service Cow Slaughter Under Federal Inspection By Region and U.S. Total -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Week ending-05/11/2013 Week ending-05/12/2012 -------------------------------------------------------------- Dairy All Dairy All Region cows cows cows cows -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- head 1 - 100 - - 2 500 600 500 600 3 8,900 11,300 7,900 9,900 4 2,700 11,200 3,300 12,300 5 (D) (D) 17,100 29,400 6 5,800 23,500 6,400 22,500 7 (D) (D) (D) (D) 8 (D) (D) (D) (D) 9 14,900 21,600 16,500 19,600 10 3,200 4,600 3,600 4,500 U.S. 2/ 55,500 123,800 57,300 116,300 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Represents zero. (D) Withheld to avoid disclosing data for 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 A region may not be published due to confidentiality, but is included in totals.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_ls714.txt www.ams.usda.gov/lsmarketnews