sd-crop-livestock

                             CATTLE ON FEED


News Release                                            September 23, 2005

                                             
                    
               

               CATTLE ON FEED INVENTORY DOWN FROM AUGUST


               
SIOUX FALLS, September 23, 2005 -- South Dakota's 1,000+ capacity feedlots 
reported 132,000 cattle on feed for the slaughter market on September 1, 
according to the USDA's South Dakota Agricultural Statistics Service.  This 
is down 6,000 head from a year earlier and down 11,000 head from last month.

Placements during August totaled 24,000 head, down 1,000 head from last year 
but up 9,000 head from July 2005.

Marketings of fed cattle during August totaled 34,000 head, down 9,000 head 
from last year but up 4,000 head from last month. 

Other disappearance during August totaled 1,000 head, unchanged from a year 
earlier but down 2,000 head from July 2005.

                        

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