SJ_LS714 St. Joseph, MO Thu May 16, 2013 USDA Market News Service Cow Slaughter Under Federal Inspection By Region and U.S. Total -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Week ending-05/04/2013 Week ending-05/05/2012 -------------------------------------------------------------- Dairy All Dairy All Region cows cows cows cows -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- head 1 - - - 100 2 500 700 500 600 3 9,300 11,600 8,000 10,000 4 2,700 11,100 3,000 12,400 5 (D) (D) 15,600 27,500 6 5,500 22,600 7,600 22,600 7 (D) (D) (D) (D) 8 (D) (D) (D) (D) 9 15,300 21,600 15,300 18,600 10 3,400 4,500 3,600 4,400 U.S. 2/ 55,800 125,900 55,700 113,900 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 A region may not be published due to confidentiality, but is included in totals. Source: USDA Market News Service, St Joseph, MO (816)-676-7000 e-mail: stjoe.lgmn@ams.usda.gov www.ams.usda.gov/mnreports/sj_ls714.txt www.ams.usda.gov/lsmarketnews