Nebraska feedlots, with capacities of 1,000 or more head, contained 2.36 million cattle on feed on January 1, according to the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service, Nebraska Field Office. This inventory was down slightly from last year.

Placements during December totaled 320,000 head, down 7 percent from 2008.

Fed cattle marketings for the month of December totaled 350,000 head, up 3 percent from last year. Other disappearance during December 2009 totaled 20,000 head, compared with 15,000 head in 2008.