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Fiscal Year: 2019 Month: Fiscal Year 2019 09/30/2018 to 09/28/2019

BEEF

YIELD GRADE TOTAL % OF % OF TOTAL

QUALITY QUALITY QUALITY ALL STEER AND

GRADE #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 ONLY GRADED QUALITY HEIFER

THIS PD GRADED OFFERED

PRIME 3,589 75,510 309,225 120,296 30,250 1,325,134 1,864,004 8.8% 8.4%

CHOICE 131,136 1,338,352 2,207,127 503,519 72,613 11,255,019 15,507,766 73.4% 70.0%

SELECT 159,616 580,424 326,627 38,625 4,935 2,581,064 3,691,293 17.5% 16.7%

STANDARD 20 294 567 119 25 2,274 3,299 0.0% 0.0%

COMMERCIAL 3 318 1,953 1,670 536 3 4,482 0.0%

UTILITY 204 6,163 16,255 7,543 1,820 8 31,994 0.2%

CUTTER 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0%

CANNER 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0%

YIELD ONLY 25,817 51,300 36,312 8,157 2,087

TOTAL YIELD

GRADED THIS

PERIOD 320,385 2,052,361 2,898,066 679,930 112,266

% OF ALL

YIELD GRADED 5.3% 33.9% 47.8% 11.2% 1.9%

95.6% of Federal Inspected Steer and Heifers offered represents total Steers and Heifers graded.

0.9% of Federal Inspected Cows offered represents total Cows graded.

81.1% of Federal Inspected Beef offered represents total Beef (Steers, Heifers, and Cows) graded.

95.1% of Beef Quality graded (Prime, Choice, Select, Standard) of total Steers/Heifers offered.

27.2% of Beef Yield graded (1 - 5) of Steers/Heifers offered.

 Information Provided By:

 United States Department of Agriculture

 Agricultural Marketing Service

 Livestock & Poultry Program

Quality Assessment Division

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Fiscal Year: 2019 Month: Fiscal Year 2019 09/30/2018 to 09/28/2019

LAMB AND MUTTON VEAL AND CALF

YIELD GRADE TOTAL % OF

QUALITY QUALITY QUALITY ALL QUALITY TOTAL %

GRADE #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 ONLY GRADED QUALITY GRADE THIS PD

THIS PD GRADED

PRIME 66 875 1,767 1,579 895 5,182 7.2% PRIME 617 3.1%

CHOICE 3,399 18,578 26,785 12,042 5,570 66,374 92.8% CHOICE 19,129 96.9%

GOOD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0% GOOD 34 0.2%

UTILITY 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0% STANDARD 0 0.0%

CULL 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0% UTILITY 0 0.0%

TOTAL 19,747

TOTAL YIELD

GRADED THIS 26.8% of Federal Veal and Calf

PERIOD 3,465 19,453 28,552 13,621 6,464 offered represtents total

Veal and Calf graded

% OF ALL

YIELD GRADED 4.8% 27.2% 39.9% 19.0% 9.0% TOTAL BULL/BULLOCK 0

TOTAL PORK 0

55.4% of Federal Inspected Lamb offered represents total Lambs Graded.

 Information Provided By:

 United States Department of Agriculture

 Agricultural Marketing Service

 Livestock & Poultry Program

Quality Assessment Division

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Fiscal Year: 2019 Month: Fiscal Year 2019 09/30/2018 to 09/28/2019

BEEF

YIELD GRADE TOTAL % OF % OF TOTAL

QUALITY QUALITY QUALITY ALL STEER AND

GRADE #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 ONLY GRADED QUALITY HEIFER

THIS PD GRADED OFFERED

PRIME 4,208 88,523 362,516 141,027 35,463 1,553,504 2,185,241 8.8% 8.4%

CHOICE 153,736 1,569,000 2,587,497 590,294 85,127 13,194,679 18,180,333 73.4% 70.0%

SELECT 187,124 680,453 382,917 45,282 5,786 3,025,878 4,327,440 17.5% 16.7%

STANDARD 23 345 665 140 29 2,666 3,868 0.0% 0.0%

COMMERCIAL 4 496 3,050 2,609 837 4 7,000 0.0%

UTILITY 319 9,626 25,389 11,782 2,842 13 49,971 0.2%

CUTTER 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0%

CANNER 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0%

YIELD ONLY 30,266 60,141 42,570 9,563 2,447

TOTAL YIELD

GRADED THIS

PERIOD 375,680 2,408,584 3,404,604 800,697 132,531

% OF ALL

YIELD GRADED 5.3% 33.8% 47.8% 11.2% 1.9%

LAMB AND MUTTON VEAL AND CALF

YIELD GRADE TOTAL % OF

QUALITY QUALITY QUALITY ALL QUALITY TOTAL %

GRADE #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 ONLY GRADED QUALITY GRADE THIS PD

THIS PD GRADED

PRIME 982 12,970 26,179 23,389 13,253 76,773 7.2% PRIME 4,919 3.1%

CHOICE 50,352 275,228 396,814 178,402 82,517 983,313 92.8% CHOICE 152,425 96.9%

GOOD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0% GOOD 272 0.2%

UTILITY 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0% STANDARD 0 0.0%

CULL 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0% UTILITY 0 0.0%

TOTAL YIELD TOTAL 157,344

GRADED THIS

PERIOD 51,334 288,198 422,993 201,791 95,770

% OF ALL

YIELD GRADED 4.8% 27.2% 39.9% 19.0% 9.0% TOTAL BULL/BULLOCK 0

TOTAL PORK 0

 Information Provided By:

 United States Department of Agriculture

 Agricultural Marketing Service

 Livestock & Poultry Program

Quality Assessment Division

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 NATIONAL SUMMARY OF MEATS GRADED