Cattle on a Chatham-Kent area farm. (BlackburnNews.com file photo by Simon Crouch) The U-S cattle and calves inventory on feed on July 1st was up 2 per cent from a year ago.
The USDA reports placements on feedlots in June totalled 1 point 48 million head - up 1 per cent from a year ago.
Marketings of cattle in the U-S last month came to 1 point 75 million head, 5 per cent below June of 2014.
The USDA says those marketings were the lowest they've been for June since the current reporting series began in 1996.
Chatham-Kent police reported a 44-year-old man driving a pickup truck was killed in the crash at Jeanettes Creek Road and Coutts Line around 6 p.m. Tuesday.
Pretty in Pink at the Rink is the fifth one this year, and is in partnership with the Chatham-Kent Health Alliance.
According to Chatham-Kent police, the victim was walking around King Street East in Chatham when she was approached by a woman she didn't know and struck in the face.
The Toronto Blue Jays lost 7-2 to the Houston Astros on Tuesday while the Detroit Tigers won their fourth straight, 8-0 over Seattle.
In hopes of raising awareness of the help available to sexual violence survivors, a local crisis centre has handed out stickers to over 200 businesses.
Three people are facing charges after separate incidents took place over the long weekend.
