CATTLE INVENTORY JANUARY 1, 2018
ARIZONA
The January 1, 2018 inventory of all cattle and calves in Arizona totaled 1.00 million head, up 3 percent from the January 1, 2017 inventory, according to the January 1 Cattle Survey conducted by the Mountain Regional Field Office of the National Agricultural Statistics Service, USDA. Beef cows, at 187,000 head, were up 3,000 head from the previous year. Milk cows increased 7,000 head from last year to 203,000 head. Arizona’s 2017 calf crop, at 310,000 head, is down 3 percent from 2016.