South Dakota feedlots with capacities of 1,000 or more head, contained 235,000 cattle on feed at the beginning of February, according to the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service. This inventory was down four percent from last year. Placements during January were down seven percent from 2021 and fed cattle marketing’s for the month of January totaled 30,000 head, down 21 percent from last year.
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