Look at the cow slaughter numbers!

[jrsiajdranch]

SJ_LS714
St. Joseph, MO    Thu Feb 16, 2012    USDA Market News Service

                     Cow Slaughter Under Federal Inspection         
                            By Region and U.S. Total
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                      Week ending-02/04/2012          Week ending-02/05/2011    
                  --------------------------------------------------------------
                       Dairy            All            Dairy            All     
    Region             cows            cows            cows            cows     
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                                               head                             
1                          -                -              -              100   
2                        600              700            600              700   
3                     10,200           12,800          8,600           10,700   
4                      3,600           13,500          4,000           15,800   
5                     18,800           33,000         17,200           29,300   
6                      7,200           24,900          4,100           20,800   
7                        (D)              (D)            (D)              (D)   
8                        (D)              (D)            (D)              (D)   
9                     17,900           21,500         19,000           21,800   
10                     3,300            4,300          3,700            6,700   
U.S. 2/               63,400          128,400         59,100          122,900   
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-    Represents zero.                                                           
(D)  Withheld to avoid disclosing data for individual operations.
1/   States included in regions are as follows   1- CT, ME, NH, VT, MA & RI;
     2- NY & NJ;  3- DE-MD, PA, WV & VA;  4- AL, FL, GA, KY, MS, NC, SC & TN;
     5- IL, IN, MI, MN, OH & WI;  6- AR, LA, NM, OK & TX;  7- IA, KS, MO & NE;
     8- CO, MT, ND, SD, UT & WY;  9- AZ, CA, HI & NV;  10- AK, ID, OR & WA.
2/   Totals may not add due to rounding.  A region may not be published due to
     confidentiality, but is included in totals.

[jrsiajdranch]

BTW hard to believe but dairy culls were as high as 90 cents last week!   This increase in cull dairy cows is only gonna get worse. I wonder how long before we hit 65,000 + dairy culls?  May be we can get this cow herd under 9 million this summer!? 

[k-289]

Wondering how long the consumer will continue to pay for  $3  burger     ?

[jrsiajdranch]

Right up till it turns into $4!  And that is coming very soon. Be very careful as many are about to see the farmer as the number 1 enemy.

[k-289]

High prices in this economy is highly unusual--- guess we will let the   "experts"  reshuffle the deck and get ready for the next  line of  goods  sale --- the old pyramid of every step up some one is eliminated even though it can be very lonely on the last box--- 

[k-289]

One thing with energy price increases it will shrink the grocery funds--- 

[jrsiajdranch]

Pizza sales already off by 12% for the year!

[k-289]

We finally got a little mixed precip. here in NE  Nebr. Yesterday --great to get the fire danger down and a pump primer for spring ---   I would hope this market would catch it's breath and end this extreme upward ramp for our consumer friends---   

[ChrisGrains]

That is a lot of cows. Where do you find this data? Very informative

[Artifice]

I think the industry worries too much about the economy.

food as a %  of household budgets is much lower than 30-40 yrs ago.

economy is still 15 trillion, though flatish.

3& burger   vs 6$ chicken boneless cutlets?

cow pepole are staring at the high price for culls and, liquidating.

should be buying,   as we are building a bigger shortage for later this yr and next.

US likes beef and eats a lot, 2.50 or 3