Calif. Feeders Try to Rebound

Imperial Valley Faces Decline in Feeding Industry From 2014 Plant Closure

Chris Clayton
By  Chris Clayton , DTN Ag Policy Editor
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Paul Cameron, a Brawley, Calif., cattle feeder, was an original investor in the Brawley Beef packing plant that National Beef bought in 2006 and then closed last year. Now he has to send his Holsteins to slaughter at the JBS plant in Tolleson, Ariz., which is about 225 miles east of Brawley. (DTN photo by Chris Clayton)
Paul Cameron, a Brawley, Calif., cattle feeder, was an original investor in the Brawley Beef packing plant that National Beef bought in 2006 and then closed last year. Now he has to send his Holsteins to slaughter at the JBS plant in Tolleson, Ariz., which is about 225 miles east of Brawley. (DTN photo by Chris Clayton)
Cattle feeders in southern California near the Mexican border are still experimenting with their markets and possibilities after National Beef closed its packing plant there last May. Those producers, who built a market out of feeding Holstein steers, also face...

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Chris Clayton

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