Swine Statistical References – Meat Animals
Introduction
This factsheet lists data sources and associated hyperlinks to meat animal, dairy and grain production websites. The websites contain data for cattle, calves, sheep, lambs and hogs for animals at federally inspected plants and home consumption. To go to the desired website click on the internet link provided in the third column of the references.
See PIG 15-03-01 for additional information relative to livestock slaughter.
Objectives
- Locate the Red Meat Yearbook
- Review trends in livestock and dairy production
- Locate quarterly and annual pig crop reports Locate weekly weights of hogs
- Locate daily and weekly red meat production
- Locate end-of-month stocks of meat, poultry, vegetables, etc., in cold storage
Meat Animals
| Meat Animals: Production, Disposition, Income, USDA/NASS (1964-date) | Annual balance sheet and income estimates for cattle, hogs and sheep. Includes estimates of beginning and ending inventories; also total production and marketings in pounds, average prices, value of production, cash receipts, home consumption, and gross marketings by state and U.S., for previous years. | http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/ MannUsda/viewDocumentInfo.do?documentID=1101 |
| Trends in U.S. Livestock and Dairy | http://www.usda.gov/nass/pubs/trends/livestockdairy.htm | |
| Red Meat Yearbook, USDA/ERS | Monthly, quarterly, and annual data on commercial livestock slaughter and meat production; livestock and meat prices and price indexes; inventories of cattle, hogs, and sheep; and meat supply and utilization. Excel spreadsheets | http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/MannUsda/viewDocumentInfo.do?documentID=1354 |
| Meat, Livestock and Grain Prices and Summaries, USDA/AMS | http://www.ams.usda.gov/LSMNpubs/index.htm | |
| Hogs and Pigs Reports (1968- date) | Issued four times yearly, presents data on the U.S. pig crop for 17 major states and the U.S., including inventory number by class, weight group, and value of hogs and pigs, farrowings, farrowing intentions. Also includes the number of operations keeping hogs, the number of hog operations and percent of inventory by size groups. | http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/MannUsda/viewDocumentInfo.do?documentID=1086 |
| Hog weights – Weekly | Current weekly live barrows and gilts, Iowa-S. MN. | http://www.ams.usda.gov/mnreports/NW_LS720.txt |
| Live and Slaughter Weights, Daily and Weekly | Cattle, calves, hogs, sheep, goats, equine and bison. | http://www.ams.usda.gov/mnreports/WA_LS711.txt |
| Weekly Meat Production, USDA | Cattle, calves, hogs, and sheep. | http://www.ams.usda.gov/mnreports/SJ_LS712.TXT |
| Pork in Cold Storage, USDA/NASS (1964-date) | Regional and national end-of-month stocks of meats, dairy products, poultry products, fruits, nuts, and vegetables in public, private and semi-private refrigerated warehouses. | http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/ MannUsda/viewDocumentInfo.do?documentID=1034 |
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