The mixing of beef and cattle markets in North America contains commerce in reside cattle between Canada, Mexico, and the U.S. The latest month-to-month commerce information provides to the image of cattle flows for the interval January – July this yr. For the yr up to now, U.S. cattle imports whole 951,910 head, down 6.3 % yr over yr.
Whole cattle exports to date in 2022 are 192,415 head, down 36.7 % from the document cattle export whole final yr. Web cattle imports for the January – July interval are 759.495 head, up 6.7 % yr over yr.
Imports and exports
Cattle imports from Mexico for the yr up to now are down 30.2 % yr over yr. The seven-month yr up to now whole of 488,449 head is the smallest for the interval since 2009. Over 99 % of cattle imports from Mexico include feeder cattle, which incorporates 84.6 % steers and 15.4 % heifers to date in 2022.
Cattle exports to Mexico for the yr up to now embody 64,226 head, up 73.7 % yr over yr, of which 79.9 % are feeder cattle, with the rest purebred beef and dairy animals. Web cattle imports from Mexico are down 36.0 % from final yr.
Cattle imports from Canada embody each slaughter and feeder cattle. For the January – July interval, whole cattle imports from Canada are 463,461 head, up 46.7 % yr over yr.This whole contains 307,302 head of slaughter cattle consisting of 40.1 % slaughter cows/bulls and 59.9 % fed steers and heifers.
Imports of slaughter cows/bulls are up 13.8 % yr over yr and imports of fed cattle are up 28.4 % over final yr. A complete of 146,845 head of feeder cattle have been imported from Canada within the first seven months of the yr, with heifers making up 78.9 % of whole feeder imports. Feeder cattle imports are up 152.6 % yr over yr for the January – July interval.
U.S. exports of feeder cattle to Canada account for 96.2 % of the whole 120,594 head of cattle exports to Canada within the January – July interval this yr. That is down 52.7 % from the document degree of cattle exports to Canada in 2021. Mixed internet feeder cattle imports from Mexico and Canada are down 2.7 % yr over yr for the primary seven months of 2022.
Though cattle imports and export totals sound giant in absolute numbers, the function of imported cattle is fairly modest in home markets. Imports of slaughter cows/bulls for the primary seven months of 2022 accounted for two.8 % of whole cow and bull slaughter within the U.S. in the course of the interval. Imported fed cattle accounted for 1.2 % of whole steer and heifer slaughter throughout the identical interval. Web imports of feeder cattle from Mexico and Canada from January – July represented 1.3 % of the estimated feeder provide on July 1.
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