The availability of cheap feed grain for many years influenced the structure of the beef cattle industry and the types of production systems used in very fundamental ways. These impacts are only just now being truly recognized as the industry struggles to adapt to an economic environment that appears to have fundamentally changed and the changes appear to be permanent. These changes begin as direct short run impacts on the feedlot sector but ultimately will have long impacts that will affect every aspect of cattle production
The production of cattle in the United State is a very large business. Production begins at the cow-...
It’s no secret that the cattle market is in a down-cycle. Cattle numbers and beef supplies are on th...
The Cow-Calf sector of the beef industry has undergone a period of increasing intensification and tr...
During the past two or three years, large supplies of feeder cattle, fed beef and non-fed beef domin...
Where we have been and where we are today will largely dictate what the future will look like. The l...
Beef production is always in a state of flux. Nothing in this business stays the same for very long....
2011 was, in many ways, a year of contrasts for the cattle industry. Regionally, extreme drought con...
Expansion of the ethanol industry is having a major impact on all of agriculture including the cattl...
There are many major economic focuses at work in the sector. In late 2003, a start to the herd build...
Weaber and Miller (2004) said “The structure of the cattle industry has changed dramatically over ti...
Agriculture in the United States is undergoing a significant change. Grain, oilseed, and land prices...
Weather, cattle supplies, beef demand, prospects of herd expansion (or the lack thereof), and simila...
Agricultural commodities, and in particular the livestock industry, experiences cycles in prices, de...
Cattle numbers in the U.S. peaked in 1975 at about 130 million head. Since that time, cattle numbers...
The beef supply is declining and cattle prices are rising. Fed cattle prices averaged $95/cwt in 201...
The production of cattle in the United State is a very large business. Production begins at the cow-...
It’s no secret that the cattle market is in a down-cycle. Cattle numbers and beef supplies are on th...
The Cow-Calf sector of the beef industry has undergone a period of increasing intensification and tr...
During the past two or three years, large supplies of feeder cattle, fed beef and non-fed beef domin...
Where we have been and where we are today will largely dictate what the future will look like. The l...
Beef production is always in a state of flux. Nothing in this business stays the same for very long....
2011 was, in many ways, a year of contrasts for the cattle industry. Regionally, extreme drought con...
Expansion of the ethanol industry is having a major impact on all of agriculture including the cattl...
There are many major economic focuses at work in the sector. In late 2003, a start to the herd build...
Weaber and Miller (2004) said “The structure of the cattle industry has changed dramatically over ti...
Agriculture in the United States is undergoing a significant change. Grain, oilseed, and land prices...
Weather, cattle supplies, beef demand, prospects of herd expansion (or the lack thereof), and simila...
Agricultural commodities, and in particular the livestock industry, experiences cycles in prices, de...
Cattle numbers in the U.S. peaked in 1975 at about 130 million head. Since that time, cattle numbers...
The beef supply is declining and cattle prices are rising. Fed cattle prices averaged $95/cwt in 201...
The production of cattle in the United State is a very large business. Production begins at the cow-...
It’s no secret that the cattle market is in a down-cycle. Cattle numbers and beef supplies are on th...
The Cow-Calf sector of the beef industry has undergone a period of increasing intensification and tr...