Parity price based on data for February 2000. Same Same Red Meat, mil. Total red meat supplies in freezers were 3 percent above December 1999, but were 7 percent below January 1999. Frozen pork stocks were 7 percent above last month, but were 13 percent below last year. Percent Change Commodity Stocks Jan. Dec. 1,000 lbs.
Inventory is the number on hand at the end of the year.
The United States total show the actual number of feedlots, inventory, and number of animals marketed in each size group. Lots, inventory, and marketings from other size groups are included to avoid disclosing individual operations. Beginning in 1995, the farm definition also includes operations having 5 or more horses or ponies regardless of sales as horse farms. Yield per colony increased 7 pounds from a year earlier to 77 pounds per colony. Prices for the 1999 crop averaged 61 cents per pound, down twenty-five cents from the 1998 price.