through May, according to the National Agricul- tural Statistics Service,


Meat Processing Still Lags M


FAYETTEVILLE, ARK.


eat processing continued at a lower


level


Anderson, head of the agricultural economics and agribusiness de- partment of the Univer- sity


of Arkansas


System Division of Agriculture and the


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Cattle and hog


slaughter were down “markedly from a year ago, even accounting for


fewer slaughter


days. May 2020 cattle slaughter was 23 per-


Consumer demand


for meat has caused frozen meat supplies to decline from April and from May 2019. “Stocks of frozen pork in cold storage declined


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Meat processing continued at a lower level through May, according to the National Agricultural Statistics Service, but it wasn’t because of COVID-19-related closures. Division of Agriculture graphic


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but it wasn’t because of COVID-19-related clo- sures. NASS, part of the U.S.


Department of Agricul- ture,


issued monthly its “Poultry


Slaughter” and “Live- stock Slaughter,” up- dating production data through the end of May. “In May,


slaughter held up much better


chicken than


might have been ex- pected, given the dis- ruptions in processing operations that


re-


ceived so much atten- tion,”


said John


Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural Food and Life Sciences. Anderson


said


chicken slaughter was down 9 percent over May 2019 and down 3 percent compared to April. “Most of the decline is


actually due to the fact that May 2020 had two fewer slaughter days than May 2019, and one less than last month,” he said. The number of processing days is determined by when weekends or holi- days fall during the month.


cent lower than May 2019 and May 2020 hog slaughter was 17 percent lower than May 2019,” Anderson said. However, when com-


pared to April 2020, beef processing made a slight rebound. “Cattle slaughter sharply


fell more than hog


slaughter but stabilized more quickly,” he said. Anderson said that


the weekly data suggest that “by the time June is wrapped up, cattle and hog slaughter will likely both within 5 percent or less of the prior year.”


by 24 percent from April and are 26 per- cent lower than a year ago,” he said, adding that pork stocks are at their lowest level since August 2011. Anderson said frozen


stocks of beef and chicken both remained above 2019 levels, de- spite a decline from April to May.


of


Monday’s report is part the department’s


weekly analyses of the impact of COVID-19 on the economy. See them at https://bit.ly/AR-Ag- Eco-Impacts2020.


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