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Feedlots

Cattle on feed inventory 

South Dakota's 1,000+ capacity feedlots reported 220,000 cattle on feed for the slaughter market on December 1, according to the South Dakota office of USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service. ...

Argentine cattle move from Pampas to feedlots 

Cows grazing freely on the vast Pampas have long been part of Argentine tradition....

Feedyards left with markets 

We're the tail on the dog. That's how Scott Keeling, owner and manager of Keeling Cattle Feeders at Hereford, TX, describes the effect of the world's...

Kansas feedyards see sharp decline in cattle 

At a time when the consumer appetite for beef is waning amid the economic downturn, the number of cattle going into feedlots in Kansas and across the nation also has taken a steep dive. ...

U.S. Cattle on Feed Down 7 Percent 

Cattle and calves on feed for slaughter market in the United States for feedlots with capacity of 1,000 or more head totaled 11.0 million head on November 1, 2008. The inventory was 7 percent below November 1, 2007 and 8 percent below November 1, 2006....

Don't Fire The Vet 

Feedyard managers and stocker guys might call it a bad luck/good luck story. Dan Thomson calls it riding the epidemiological curve to glory. It happens...

USDA Reports Feedlot Numbers Declining 

In a recent report, USDA expressed concern about the fifth straight month decline in the number of cattle being grain fed in feedlots. ...

Value of gain historically high 

There's no minting money in the current high-cost environment of the cattle business. But steamy prices also offer more lucrative potential to adding...

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