date:Apr 23, 2014
production advanced slightly to 161 million lbs.
Commercial cattle slaughter for 2013 totaled 32.5 million head, down 1 percent with federal inspection comprising 98.4 percent of the total, according to USDA. The average live weight was 1,314 lbs., up 12 lbs. from a year ago. Steers comprised 50.1 percent of the total federally inspected cattle slaughter, heifers 28.6 percent, dairy cows 9.8 percent, other cows 9.8 percent and bulls 1.7 percent.
Commercial calf slaughter declined 1 percent to