<p>The US Department of Agriculture s National Agricultural Statistics Service has released an updated cattle inventory report. Roger Ott is director of the NASS Rocky Mountain Regional field office.<p><p>“At the US level, there was a total of 89 point 3 million cattle and calves in inventory on January 1 2023, which was down 3% from the previous year. Of that total, there was 28 point 9 million head of beef cow down 4% from a year ago, and 9.4 million milk cows which was up slightly from a year ago.<p>In addition, an updated sheep and goat inventory report is out. <p><p>“As of January 1, the US level for the goat inventory. There were 2.5 million all goats on hand, down 2%. Of that total, 2 million of those were meat and other goats, which was down 1% or 100,000 were milk goats, which was down 2% and 107,000, or Angora goats, which was down 3% from the prior year.”<p><p>Once again, that was Roger Ott. He is the Rocky Mountain Regio
Director of the National Agricultural Statistics Service Rocky Mountain region field office, USDA. Roger Ott has details on the latest US grain production numbers.<p><p>“Corn for grain production at the US level was estimated at 13.7 billion bushels, and that was down 9%. From 2021. The average yield in the US was 173.3 bushels 3.4 bushels per acre below the record high that was set in 2021. And that record high was 176.7 bushels<p>per acre.”<p> <p>As for sorghum and proso, millet…<p><p>“Sorghum for grain production at the US was estimated at 188 million bushels, which was down 58%. From the prior year, grain yield was estimated at 41.1 bushels per acre, down 27.9 bushels per acre from 2021 production of personal millet and 2022 at the US was 9.4 million bushels, which was down 39% from the previous year.”<p><p>When it comes to the hay numbers, Ott says you can see the effects of the drought<p><p>“Production