USDA Actual Daily Slaughter 12/26 11:10
12/26/2025 | 11:10 am CST USDA Actual Daily Slaughter 12/26 11:10
Actual Slaughter Under Federal Inspection
Inspected Livestock - FIS Slaughter (Actual)
Friday Dec 26,2025
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Report for Sunday Dec 07,2025 thru Saturday Dec 13,2025 - Final
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Federally Inspected Slaughter by Species and Day - U.S. (head)
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Bison Calves Cattle Goats Hogs Sheep
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12/8/25 331 567 115201 3194 491290 10808
12/9/25 225 418 123396 1974 495113 8253
12/10/25 278 441 122454 1434 491196 8703
12/11/25 205 362 121595 2440 494946 7257
12/12/25 124 500 105527 1720 475044 5117
12/13/25 - - 7799 - 285326 17
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Total 1163 2288 595972 10762 2732915 40155
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Federally Inspected Slaughter Cattle by Class and Day - U.S. (head)
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Dairy Dairy/Other Other Str/Hfr
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Cows % of Cattle Heifers Cows Steers % of Cattle
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12/8/25 8349 14.8% 38459 8728 58132 83.8%
12/9/25 11734 17.7% 38725 10119 61137 80.9%
12/10/25 11777 16.5% 43720 8481 56597 81.9%
12/11/25 11805 17.6% 39062 9595 59582 81.1%
12/12/25 11866 19.1% 38015 8301 45541 79.2%
12/13/25 331 8.4% 3425 321 3687 91.2%
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Total 55862 17.0% 201406 45545 284676 81.6%
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Meat Production, Live Weight and Dressed Weight - U.S.
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Beef
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Cattle Steers Heifers Cows Bulls
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Live Weight 1465
Dressed Weight 894 981 893 648 924
Meat Production 531.7
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Calves/Veal
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Calves
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Live Weight 335
Dressed Weight 196
Meat Production 0.4
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Pork
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Hogs Barrows/Gilts Sows Boars
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Live Weight 294
Dressed Weight 219 217 301 223
Meat Production 597.6
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Lamb/Mutton
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Sheep Mature Sheep Lambs/Yearlings
----- ------------ ---------------
Live Weight 117
Dressed Weight 60 64 60
Meat Production 2.4
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Total Meat Production 1132.1
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Federally Inspected Slaughter Head & Percentage by Class - U.S
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Calves
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Head % of Total
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Calves 2288
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Total 2288
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Cattle
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Head % of Total
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Steers 284676 47.8
Heifers 201406 33.8
Dairy Cows 55862 9.4
Other Cows 45545 7.6
Bulls 8483 1.4
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Total 595972
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Hogs
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Head % of Total
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Barrows & Gilts 2663515 97.5
Sows 64288 2.4
Boars 5112 0.2
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Total 2732915
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Sheep
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Head % of Total
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Mature Sheep 2415 6.0
Lambs & Yearlings 37740 94.0
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Total 40155
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U.S. Federally Inspected Slaughter by Region (thousand head)
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Calves
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Standard Federal Regions Total
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1 -
2 0.6
3 1.0
4 -
5 0.3
6 -
7 -
8 -
9 -
10 -
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U.S.Total 2.3
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Cattle
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Standard Federal Regions Total Steers Heifers Dairy Cows Other Cows Bulls
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1 0.5 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.1 -
2 1.7 0.5 0.4 0.5 0.2 0.1
3 19.8 8.0 1.1 7.5 2.1 1.1
4 13.1 1.3 0.5 3.0 7.1 1.2
5 60.0 30.2 - 14.1 6.1 -
6 97.5 38.0 37.5 8.0 11.8 2.1
7 271.3 147.2 - 3.3 10.5 -
8 67.1 34.9 - 0.6 2.4 -
9 32.0 12.3 5.2 12.5 1.8 0.3
10 33.0 12.1 10.7 6.3 3.5 0.4
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U.S.Total 596.0 284.7 201.4 55.9 45.5 8.5
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Hogs
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Standard Federal Regions Total Barrows/Gilts Sows Boars
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1 0.7 0.6 - -
2 2.6 2.5 - -
3 68.4 68.3 0.1 -
4 - - 21.5 -
5 861.5 835.4 24.7 1.4
6 107.0 107.0 - -
7 1225.7 1205.0 18.0 2.7
8 - - - -
9 19.1 19.1 - -
10 5.0 4.9 - -
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U.S.Total 2732.9 2663.5 64.3 5.1
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Sheep
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Standard Federal Regions Total Mature Sheep Lambs/Yearlings
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1 1.2 - 1.1
2 5.0 0.7 4.3
3 3.5 0.1 3.4
4 3.0 0.2 2.8
5 7.2 0.4 6.8
6 3.9 0.2 3.7
7 0.4 - -
8 10.3 - -
9 4.4 0.4 4.0
10 1.2 - 1.2
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U.S.Total 40.2 2.4 37.7
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