There were 590,000 cattle and calves in Iowa feedlots on Nov. 1, the USDA said. This was unchanged from the Nov. 1, 2013, inventory.
Placements in U.S. feedlots during October totaled 2.36 million, 1 percent below 2013. For the month of October, U.S. placements are the second lowest since the series began in 1996.
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