Beef cattle on a Chatham-Kent farm. (File photo by Simon Crouch) Beef cattle on a Chatham-Kent farm. (File photo by Simon Crouch)
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U.S. Cattle Inventories Pull Back Slightly

The USDA's newest cattle inventory numbers indicate placements in feedlots of a thousand or more in February were down 1 per cent from last year at 1.69 million head.

The total U.S. inventory for those lots to start March was at 10.8 million, the same as a month earlier.

Marketings continue to climb.

The 1.65 million marketed last month represent a 4 point gain on 2016.

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