Kansas cattle on feed up

Kansas feedlots, with capacities of 1,000 or more head, contained 2.39 million cattle on feed on July 1, according to the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service. This inventory was up 1% from last year. Placements during June totaled 425,000 head, down 1% from 2019. Fed cattle marketings for the month of June totaled 455,000 head, up 3% from last year. Other disappearance during June totaled 10,000 head, unchanged from last year.