USDA Actual Daily Slaughter 12/04 11:05
12/04/2025 | 11:05 am CST USDA Actual Daily Slaughter 12/04 11:05
Actual Slaughter Under Federal Inspection
Inspected Livestock - FIS Slaughter (Actual)
Thursday Dec 04,2025
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Report for Sunday Nov 16,2025 thru Saturday Nov 22,2025 - Final
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Federally Inspected Slaughter by Species and Day - U.S. (head)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Bison Calves Cattle Goats Hogs Sheep
------ ------ ------ ----- ------ -----
11/17/25 306 501 114449 2924 497064 10121
11/18/25 250 461 124229 2120 491885 8100
11/19/25 346 526 119523 1663 494178 7576
11/20/25 428 241 117607 2460 497672 8676
11/21/25 152 471 106412 2131 489850 4139
11/22/25 58 - 6623 14 151619 13
___________________________________________________________________________
Total 1540 2200 588843 11312 2622268 38625
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Federally Inspected Slaughter Cattle by Class and Day - U.S. (head)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dairy Dairy/Other Other Str/Hfr
----- ----------- ----- -------
Cows % of Cattle Heifers Cows Steers % of Cattle
---- ----------- ------- ---- ------ -----------
11/17/25 7698 15.5% 37444 10051 57830 83.2%
11/18/25 10678 17.4% 40197 10928 60179 80.8%
11/19/25 11204 16.7% 35572 8779 61908 81.6%
11/20/25 11747 18.7% 39503 10261 53986 79.5%
11/21/25 12385 19.6% 33256 8425 50378 78.6%
11/22/25 415 16.4% 2175 671 3323 83.0%
___________________________________________________________________________
Total 54127 17.5% 188147 49115 287604 80.8%
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Meat Production, Live Weight and Dressed Weight - U.S.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Beef
================================================================================
Cattle Steers Heifers Cows Bulls
------ ------ ------- ---- -----
Live Weight 1465
Dressed Weight 897 988 897 639 907
Meat Production 526.9
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Calves/Veal
================================================================================
Calves
------
Live Weight 345
Dressed Weight 202
Meat Production 0.4
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Pork
================================================================================
Hogs Barrows/Gilts Sows Boars
---- ------------- ---- -----
Live Weight 293
Dressed Weight 218 216 305 231
Meat Production 571.3
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Lamb/Mutton
================================================================================
Sheep Mature Sheep Lambs/Yearlings
----- ------------ ---------------
Live Weight 112
Dressed Weight 57 63 56
Meat Production 2.2
________________________________________________________________________________
Total Meat Production 1100.9
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Federally Inspected Slaughter Head & Percentage by Class - U.S
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Calves
================================================================================
Head % of Total
---- ----------
Calves 2200
________________________________________________________________________________
Total 2200
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Cattle
================================================================================
Head % of Total
---- ----------
Steers 287604 48.8
Heifers 188147 32.0
Dairy Cows 54127 9.2
Other Cows 49115 8.3
Bulls 9850 1.7
________________________________________________________________________________
Total 588843
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hogs
================================================================================
Head % of Total
---- ----------
Barrows & Gilts 2553902 97.4
Sows 63443 2.4
Boars 4923 0.2
________________________________________________________________________________
Total 2622268
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sheep
================================================================================
Head % of Total
---- ----------
Mature Sheep 2802 7.3
Lambs & Yearlings 35823 92.7
________________________________________________________________________________
Total 38625
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
U.S. Federally Inspected Slaughter by Region (thousand head)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Calves
================================================================================
Standard Federal Regions Total
------------------------ -----
1 -
2 0.5
3 0.9
4 0.1
5 0.5
6 -
7 -
8 -
9 -
10 -
________________________________________________________________________________
U.S.Total 2.2
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Cattle
================================================================================
Standard Federal Regions Total Steers Heifers Dairy Cows Other Cows Bulls
------------------------ ----- ------ ------- ---------- ---------- -----
1 0.6 0.3 0.2 0.1 - 0.1
2 1.8 0.6 0.5 0.5 0.2 0.1
3 20.3 8.6 1.1 7.1 2.1 1.3
4 14.3 1.4 0.6 2.6 8.2 1.4
5 60.7 30.0 - 15.0 6.7 -
6 100.7 40.1 36.3 8.0 14.0 2.3
7 265.8 148.1 - 2.6 10.1 -
8 61.1 34.8 - 0.5 2.5 -
9 30.4 11.2 5.7 10.9 2.3 0.3
10 33.1 12.4 10.6 6.8 3.0 0.3
________________________________________________________________________________
U.S.Total 588.8 287.6 188.1 54.1 49.1 9.9
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hogs
================================================================================
Standard Federal Regions Total Barrows/Gilts Sows Boars
------------------------ ----- ------------- ---- -----
1 0.6 0.6 - -
2 3.7 3.7 - -
3 77.8 77.7 - -
4 - - 23.6 -
5 817.3 793.6 22.1 1.6
6 117.4 117.3 - -
7 1146.8 1126.7 17.7 2.4
8 - - - -
9 19.6 19.5 - -
10 5.1 5.1 - -
________________________________________________________________________________
U.S.Total 2622.3 2553.9 63.4 4.9
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sheep
================================================================================
Standard Federal Regions Total Mature Sheep Lambs/Yearlings
------------------------ ----- ------ ----- ---------------
1 1.0 - 1.0
2 5.6 0.7 5.0
3 3.5 0.2 3.3
4 3.2 0.2 3.0
5 6.3 0.4 5.9
6 3.8 0.4 3.4
7 0.4 - -
8 9.3 - -
9 4.5 0.6 3.9
10 1.1 - 1.0
________________________________________________________________________________
U.S.Total 38.6 2.8 35.8
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[0600059D]