USDA-NASS
Stock # 94145
Livestock Slaughter
9/21/98
This is the documentation for the USDA-NASS livestock slaughter data.
There
are two sets of data, Weekly Federally Inspected (FI) head, and Monthly
head,
liveweight, dressed weight and meat production for Commercial and FI.
The
data are in ASCII, comma delimited files (.CSV). These data can be
imported
directly into spreadsheet software.
Monthly Commercial and FI Slaughter Files:
The Federal Inspected data are available for the U.S. only.
contains
12 months and annual total data for the years 1974-97.
Each file
The slaughter data reporting requirements changed beginning in 1977 to
include
more detail for FI slaughter. These detail data are not available for
the
years 1974-76, therefore, some rows will contain zeros for these years.
The 1982 data are reported by quarter only, because of budget cuts for
that
year.
There was a change to the cow data beginning with 1986. The dairy buyout
program required monitoring the number of dairy cows going to slaughter.
Beginning January 1986 the cows are reported for the subclasses dairy
cows and
all other cows. The dairy cows and other cows were summed to make the
all cows
series complete.
Weekly FI Slaughter:
The Weekly head kill by species and class includes data for Cattle,
Calves,
Hogs, Sheep, Goats and Equine. Because each year has one or two days
more than
52 weeks, some years have 53 weeks of data. The data series begins in
1978.
The file naming convention follows.
CTMO7497
HGMO7497
SHMO7497
MTMO7497
SLWK7897
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Cattle & Calves, Monthly 1974-97
Hogs, Monthly 1974-97
Sheep & Lambs, Monthly 1974-97
Red Meat Production, Monthly 1974-97
Federally Inspected, Weekly 1978-97
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* Questions about the data or the use of this diskette should be directed
to: *
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Jim Brueggen, NASS,
(202) 720-4889.
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