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Cattle, hog and sheep slaughter all on the rise in the US

25/09/2019
Official figures show that livestock farmers in the US sent just over 22 million cattle to slaughter in the first eight months of 2019, an increase of 1.2% compared to the same months in 2018.

Hogs were up by 2.8% to almost 83.8 million between January and August. The figure for sheep, at just over 1.3 million represented an increase of 2.1%.


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