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Characteristics of Farmer Cattle Feeding

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  • Van Arsdall, Roy N.
  • Nelson, Kenneth E.

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Fed cattle production grew by one-third during 1964-80. Meanwhile, the number of farmer cattle feeder operations fell by about half to only 113,000 as commercial feedlot enterprises effectively used capital, labor, and marketing to seize over 70 percent of the market. The drop in number of individual farmers who feed cattle should continue in the eighties. Overall, feedlots operated by farmers are becoming fewer but larger as numbers decline east of the Mississippi River, and as cattle feeders establish more farms in the western Corn Belt and southern High Plains.

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  • Van Arsdall, Roy N. & Nelson, Kenneth E., 1983. "Characteristics of Farmer Cattle Feeding," Agricultural Economic Reports 307950, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:uerser:307950
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.307950
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    1. Boykin, Calvin C. & Gilliam, Henry C. & Gustafson, Ronald A., 1980. "Structural Characteristics of Beef Cattle Raising in the United States," Agricultural Economic Reports 307880, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.
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    1. Gillian, Henry C., Jr., 1985. "Performance Of The Beef Cow-Calf Sector," Staff Reports 277776, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.
    2. Riley, Harold & Allen, Kris & Jackson, Mark, 1984. "An Assessment of the Economic Feasibility of New Investments in Beef Slaughtering and Processing Facilities in Michigan," Agricultural Economic Report Series 201334, Michigan State University, Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics.
    3. Al-Samarrae, Sana Saleh, 1985. "An evaluation of placement hedging in developing alternative marketing strategies for Iowa cattle feeders, 1974-1984," ISU General Staff Papers 1985010108000017546, Iowa State University, Department of Economics.
    4. Smyth, Donald Craig, 1985. "Economic impacts of the Farmer-Owned Reserve program on the U.S. corn-livestock sector," ISU General Staff Papers 1985010108000013104, Iowa State University, Department of Economics.
    5. Lawrence, John D., 1986. "Livestock-feed consumption relationships as indicators of feed demand," ISU General Staff Papers 1986010108000017557, Iowa State University, Department of Economics.

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