January Colorado Cattle Inventory

January Colorado Cattle Inventory

Last Friday the yearly USDA Cattle on Inventory Report was released. National Ag Statistic Service Mountain Region Director Bill Meyer shares the Inventory numbers for Colorado.
Meyer: “In Colorado, the January 1, 2016 inventory of all cattle and calves in Colorado totaled 2.70 million head, up 6 percent from inventory last the revised January 1, 2015 inventory of 2.55 million head. Beef cows, at 772,000 head, that’s up 47,000 head from the previous year or 6 percent. Milk cows increased 3,000 head from last year to 148,000 head. Colorado’s 2015 calf crop, at 800,000 head, is up 7 percent from 2014. In January, we also estimate cattle on Feed and that includes all places with cattle on feed. The monthly report only reports feedlots of over 1,000 head plus. For January it is for everyone — and we estimated 910,000 head on feed, down 2 percent from last year.”
All cattle and calves in the United States as of January 1, 2016 totaled 92.0 million head. This is 3 percent above the 89.1 million head on January 1, 2015. All cows and heifers that have calved, at 39.6 million head, are 3 percent above the 38.6 million head on January 1, 2015. Beef cows, at 30.3 million head, are up 4 percent from a year ago.
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