April 26, 2013

USDA releases its Cold Storage report as of March 2013

The USDA's latest Cold Storage report revealed that as of March 31, 2013, butter, cheese, fruit, vegetable, poultry and red meat stocks were higher than year-earlier levels, but egg stocks were lower.

Frozen turkey stocks totalled 401,600,000 pounds, up 2% from February and up 7% from March 2012, the USDA said. Total chicken stocks were 617,886,000 pounds, down 4% from February but up 8% from March 2012. Total frozen poultry stocks were 1,020,978,000 pounds, down 2% from February but up 7% from March 2012.

Natural cheese stocks on March 31 were 1,102,118,000 pounds, up 3% from February and up 5% from March 2012. Butter stocks totalled 254,801,000 pounds, up 7% from February and up 22% from 2012.

Frozen red meat supplies totalled 1,185,506,000 pounds, up 3% from February and up 4% from March 2012. Frozen pork stocks were 648,789,000 pounds, up 2% from February and up 6% from March 2012. Beef stocks in freezers totalled 513,243,000 pounds, up 5% from February and up 2% from March 31, 2012.

Total frozen egg stocks on March 31 were 26,997,000 pounds, down 6% from February and down 20% from March 2012. Stocks of egg whites were 3,390,000 pounds, up 16% from February but down 9% from March 2012. Frozen egg yolk stocks were 2,412,000 pounds, up 8% from February but down 11% from March 2012. Whole and mixed egg stocks were 6,234,000 pounds, down 22% from February and down 40% from March 2012. Unclassified egg stocks were 14,961,000 pounds, down 3% from February and down 12% from March 2012.