Last week’s cattle-on-feed report showed a higher percentage of heifers in the nation’s feedlots.
The number of heifers and heifer calves on feed on April 1st, at 4.2 million, was up 14 percent from a year ago. And USDA livestock analyst Shayle Shagam says heifers were nearly 36 percent of the total feedlot inventory, two percent more than a year ago.
“That percentage of heifers on feed may be reflection of some potential slowing in the expansion of the breeding herd,” Shagam says.
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