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Cattle on Feed

• Cattle and calves on feed for the slaughter market in the United States for feedlots with capacity of 1,000 or more head totaled 11.7 million head on December 1, 2018. The inventory was 2 percent above December 1, 2017. • Placements in feedlots during November totaled 2.00 million head, 5 percent below 2017.  • Marketings of fed cattle during November totaled 1.87 million head, 1 percent above 2017.    (Marketings were the highest for November since the series began in 1996.) • Other disappearance totaled 80,000 head during November, 13 percent above 2017.  ...

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Red Meat Exports

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