All cattle and calves in the United States and Canada combined totaled 116.6 million head on July 1, 2009, down 2 percent from a year ago, according to a joint report by USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service and Statistics Canada.

All cows and heifers that have calved, at 47.0 million head, were down 2 percent from a year ago.

All cattle and calves in the United States on July 1 totaled 101.8 million head, down 1 percent from July 1, 2008. All cows and heifers that have calved, at 41.4 million head, were down 1 percent from a year ago.

All cattle and calves in Canada as of July 1, 2009, totaled 14.8 million head, down 2 percent from July 1, 2008. All cows and heifers that have calved, at 5.57 million, were down 5 percent from a year ago.

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