sd-crop-livestock

                            CATTLE ON FEED


News Release                                            August 19, 2005


                                  
                                  
               CATTLE ON FEED INVENTORY DOWN FROM JULY


SIOUX FALLS, August 19, 2005  -- South Dakota's 1,000+ capacity feedlots 
reported 143,000 cattle on feed for the slaughter market on August 1, 
according to the USDA's South Dakota Ag Statistics Service.  This is down 
14,000 head from a year earlier and down 18,000 head from a month earlier. 

Placements during July totaled 15,000 head, up 3,000 head from last year 
but down 11,000 head  from June 2005. 

Marketings of fed cattle during July totaled 30,000 head, up 4,000 head 
from last year but down 18,000 head from June 2005.

Other disappearance during July totaled 3,000 head, up 1,000 head from last 
year but unchanged from June 2005.


                                   

       The complete report can be accessed at www.usda.gov/nass/
               or call Carter Anderson or Steve Noyes
                            605-323-6500