Weekly Beef Production and Cattle Slaughter Report

The latest weekly report on beef production and cattle slaughter highlights a mixed picture 

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Weekly Beef Production and Cattle Slaughter Report

Weekly beef production: 500.4 million pounds, down 0.2% from the previous week and 2.5% from last year.

Year-to-date beef production: 5.96 billion pounds, down 4.0% from last year.

Weekly cattle slaughter: 598K head, down 0.5% from the previous week and 4.8% from last year.

Year-to-date cattle slaughter: 7.13 million head, down 5.4% from last year.

Live cattle weights: 1389 pounds, unchanged from the previous week, up 23 pounds from last year.

Dressed cattle weights: 839 pounds, up 3 pounds from the previous week and 19 pounds from last year.