Releases / United States

USDA NASS Cattle on Feed - monthly feedlot inventory, placements, marketings and other disappearance by State release schedule and API

USDA. Source: USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service, Cattle on Feed. Licence: public-domain.

Next releases

ReleaseUTCAgency local time
Cattle on Feed15:00 local (UTC-05:00)
Cattle on Feed15:00 local (UTC-05:00)

From the agency's own calendar, as of 2026-11-13. Reschedules and cancellations are in the API.

How fast it reaches the API

No live release measured in the last 30 days yet.

Time from the agency publishing to the data being on our feed, for releases caught live in the last 30 days. Every release counts, including slow ones and misses.

Get it by API

Series ids: US.CATTLE_ON_FEED.TOTAL.NSA, US.CATTLE_PLACED.TOTAL.NSA.

# pip install econfeed-client
from econfeed_client import Client

ef = Client()  # ECONFEED_API_KEY from the environment
for e in ef.calendar(days=90, source="us_usda_cattle_on_feed"):
    print(e.scheduled_at, e.release_name, e.reference_period)

# add as_of= for what was known then
page = ef.observations("US.CATTLE_ON_FEED.TOTAL.NSA", start="2024-01")

# pushed seconds after release
for ev in ef.stream(sources=["us_usda_cattle_on_feed"]):
    print(ev.type, ev.data.release_id)

REST: GET /v1/calendar?source=us_usda_cattle_on_feed, GET /v1/series/US.CATTLE_ON_FEED.TOTAL.NSA/observations. Webhooks: filter on source us_usda_cattle_on_feed.