The Market's Fine Print

Farewell to Stealth Expansion?

Encouraging growth in beef cattle to meet market demands is nothing new. Back in the day of extreme tallow needs for producing candles, cattlemen proudly produced "fat" animals.
Encouraging growth in beef cattle to meet market demands is nothing new. Back in the day of extreme tallow needs for producing candles, cattlemen proudly produced "fat" animals.
In 1976 it took the slaughter of 43.2 million head of cattle to produce 25.7 billion pounds of beef. This year we should process about the same amount of beef using no more than 32.5 million cattle. That's what happens when you slow chain speed but pull carcasses...

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