August cattle placements down 1%

Placements of cattle into U.S. feedlots during August were down slightly on the year. The USDA says those placements were 1% lower than last year at 1.975 million head, with a significant number of those cattle weighing between 700 and 900 pounds, starting to head to market as early as December. That decrease was despite […]

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