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Industry At A Glance: Annual Beef Cow Inventory & Cow-Calf Returns
2013-02-14 20:55:00| Beef
The latest U.S. cattle inventory report shows that the beef cowherd continues to shrink and has shed an average of 350,000 head annually for the past 17 years. With numbers down and calf prices up, the basic fundamentals are in place for heifer retention to begin in earnest. But, while prices have been high, they apparently havent been high enough. The ultimate question becomes, given the new operating dynamics, what level of return will be required to reverse this trend and encourage producers to begin rebuilding the cowherd? read more
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