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Red Meat Output Below Last Year

Commercial red meat production for the United States totaled 4.00 billion

pounds in December, down 5 percent from the 4.22 billion pounds produced in

December 2011.

Beef production, at 2.02 billion pounds, was 5 percent below the previous

year. Cattle slaughter totaled 2.54 million head, down 8 percent from

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