Looking ahead to ’24: cow slaughter and herd culling
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This rate of cow slaughter suggests that the cow herd decreased another 2.0-2.5 percent in 2023. This would result in a January 1, 2024 cow herd of about 28.2 million head, the smallest since 1961. The apparent cow culling rate for 2023 is about 12.1 percent. Since 2001, the USDA January estimate of replacement heifers …
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