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Contact:  Joseph Morse
Friday, April 30, 2010

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                      2009 MEAT ANIMAL MARKETINGS AND GROSS INCOME
	
New York livestock producers marketed 228 million pounds of meat animals during 2009, down 
15 percent from the 2008 total of 269 million pounds, according to Stephen Ropel, Director of 
USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service, New York office. Cattle and calves marketed 
were down 18 percent from a year earlier. Hogs and pigs were 7 percent higher, and sheep and 
lambs 7 percent below pounds sold in 2008.  Meat animal cash receipts, totaling $134 million, 
were down 19 percent from 2008.

Gross income from livestock during 2009, which includes the sale of meat animals and the value 
of home consumption, totaled $141 million, down 19 percent from a year earlier. Cattle and 
calves accounted for 90 percent of this total. 

Calf prices, averaging $90.00 per hundred pounds live-weight (cwt.) were down 10 percent from 
2008. Cattle prices, at an average of $53.00 per cwt. during 2009, were up 2 percent. Gross 
income from cattle and calves during 2009 totaled $124 million, down 21 percent from a year 
earlier. 

Hog and pig prices averaged $35.20 per cwt. in 2009, down 2 percent from the previous year. 
Gross income from hogs and pigs during 2009 totaled $10.3 million, up 4 percent from 2008. 

Sheep prices averaged $45.90 per cwt., up 2 percent from 2008. Lamb prices averaged $105.00 
per cwt., 1 percent above 2008. Gross income from sheep and lambs during 2009 totaled $3.2 
million, down 4 percent from 2008. 

At the national level, 2009 gross income from cattle and calves, hogs and pigs, and sheep and 
lambs for the U.S. totaled $59.0 billion, down 10 percent from 2008. Gross income decreased 
for cattle and calves, hogs and pigs, and sheep and lambs. Cattle and calves decreased 10 
percent, hogs and pigs also decreased 10 percent, while sheep and lambs decreased 3 percent.
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