MONTANA AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS 



79 



FEEDLOTS AND CATTLE ON FEED BY COUNTIES 



January 1, 1979 and 1980 

 1979 



COUNTY' 



& 

 DISTRICT 



Flathead 



Lake & Sanders 



Missoula & Ravalli 



N. WEST 



Toole. Chouteau & Hill 



Blaine & Phillips 



Teton. Glacier & Liberty .... 



N. CENTRAL 



Richland 



Dawson. Roosevelt & Valley 



N. EAST 



Cascade 



Judith Basin & Fergus 



Wheatland & Petroleum .... 

 Golden Valley, Lewis & Clark 



and Musselshell 



CENTRAL 



Beaverhead & Gallatin 



Big Horn & Treasure 



Carbon 



Stillwater 



Yellowstone 



S. WEST & S. CENTRAL 



Custer, Powder River, 



Prairie & Rosebud 



S. EAST 



STATE 



'Some counties combined to avoid disclosing individual operators. 



1980 



NUMBER OF CATTLE FEEDLOTS 



By Size of Feedlot Capacity, 1970-1979' 



Year 



1970 

 1971 

 1972 

 1973 

 1974 



1975 

 1976 

 1977 

 1978 

 1979 



Total 

 Number 



of 

 Feedlots 



Feedlots by Capacity 



501 

 473 

 389 

 305 

 276 



152 

 119 

 101 

 119 

 73 



Under 1.000 

 Head 



424 

 387 

 317 

 236 

 211 



102 

 70 

 61 

 75 

 29 



1.000- 

 1,999 



2,000- 

 3,999 



4.000- 

 7,999 



13 

 16 

 14 

 11 

 12 



13 

 13 

 15 

 16 

 16 



8,000 & 

 over 



'Number of feedlots with 1 ,000 head or more capacity is number of lots operating anytime during year. Number of under 

 1,000 head capacity and total number of feedlots is number at end of year. 



