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Better Calf Prices Would Likely Entice Cow Calf Producers to Consider Herd Expansion
Thu, 05 Aug 2010 20:15:24 CDT
Randy Blach with Cattlefax talks with us from the Summer Cattle Conference last week in Denver about the Mama Cow herd and our beef cattle producers that are a part of that segment of our beef chain.
Pricewise- Blach says we need higher calf prices to really shore up the financial balance sheet for our cow-calf operations. With higher prices, that should entice many of our producers to look at increasing the number of cows they run, even as they look to upgrade genetics along the way. In recent years, cow numbers have trended lower nationally- and the lack of strong positive returns, as well as the uincertainty of the macro economic picture has keep the cow calf segment on the defensive. Blach believes better calf prices would turn attitudes about expansion around in beef cattle country.
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