Alberta Livestock Supply and Disposition Balance Sheet

Three years of data on Alberta's total livestock supply and disposition for cattle, calves, pigs, sheep, and lambs. The Government of Alberta provides this balance sheet, which includes beginning inventory, births, imports, slaughter, deaths, and ending inventory. It was last updated in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Modeling ending inventory by forecasting births, imports, slaughter, and deaths for cattle and calves.
• Analyzing interprovincial and international trade flows of pigs and sheep using import data.
• Assessing livestock mortality rates by comparing death figures against beginning inventory and births.
• Tracking annual supply changes by comparing beginning and ending inventory across the three-year period.

Strengths

• Covers a three-year period for longitudinal analysis.
• Includes multiple livestock categories: cattle, calves, pigs, sheep, and lambs.
• Published by the Government of Alberta, an authoritative source.

Limitations

• Specific row and column counts are unknown, limiting assessment of granularity.
• Geographic scope is limited to Alberta, Canada.

Provenance

Source

Government of Alberta

Time Range

Three-year period

Freshness

Updated to April 2026.

Geography

Alberta, Canada