Interstate Livestock Movements
By Dennis A. Shields, and Kenneth H. Mathews, Jr.
Outlook Report No. (LDPM10801) 21 pp,
June 2003
This article provides a current national picture of interstate movements of cattle, hogs, and sheep. A better understanding of livestock shipping patterns helps in characterizing the livestock sectors, estimating the economic effects of major disease outbreak, and assessing marketing issues.
Keywords: livestock, cattle, sheep, hogs, movements, shipments, inshipments, outshipments
In this report ... Chapters are
in Adobe Acrobat PDF format.
The data and maps in this report are available electronically. See the Interstate Livestock Movements Data.
Updated date: June 2003
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