Cattle and calves on feed for slaughter market in the United States for feedlots with capacity of 1,000 or more head totaled 11.3 million head on December 1, 2008. The inventory was 1 percent below December 1, 2008.

Placements in feedlots during November totaled 1.85 million, 8 percent below 2008.

Marketings of fed cattle during November totaled 1.63 million, 4 percent above 2008. Other disappearance totaled 66,000 during November, 1 percent below 2008.