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Contact:  Joseph Morse
Friday, April 29, 2011

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                             2010 MEAT ANIMAL MARKETINGS AND GROSS INCOME
	
New York livestock producers marketed 289 million pounds of meat animals during 2010, up 27 
percent from the 2009 total of 228 million pounds, according to King Whetstone, Director of 
USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service, New York field office. Cattle and calves 
marketed were up 35 percent from a year earlier. Hogs and pigs were 33 percent lower, but 
sheep and lambs 10 percent above pounds sold in 2009.  Meat animal cash receipts, totaling 
$191 million, were up 43 percent from 2009.

Gross income from livestock during 2010, which includes the sale of meat animals and the value 
of home consumption, totaled $197 million, up 40 percent from a year earlier. Cattle and calves 
accounted for 93 percent of this total. 

Calf prices, averaging $92.00 per hundred pounds live-weight (cwt.) were up 2 percent from 
2009. Cattle prices, at an average of $60.50 per cwt. during 2010, were up 14 percent. Gross 
income from cattle and calves during 2010 totaled $183 million, up 48 percent from a year 
earlier. 

Hog and pig prices averaged $47.90 per cwt. in 2010, up 36 percent from the previous year. 
Gross income from hogs and pigs during 2010 totaled $9.7 million, down 6 percent from 2009. 

Sheep prices averaged $56.50 per cwt., up 32 percent from 2009. Lamb prices averaged 
$141.00 per cwt., 22 percent above 2009. Gross income from sheep and lambs during 2010 
totaled $4.4 million, up 29 percent from 2009. 

At the national level, 2010 gross income from cattle and calves, hogs and pigs, and sheep and 
lambs for the U.S. totaled $70.5 billion, up 19 percent from 2009. Gross income for cattle and 
calves increased 17 percent, hogs and pigs increased 22 percent, and sheep and lambs 
increased 22 percent over previous year’s gross income.

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