You are thinking ahead. Reducing herd size today means higher beef prices in coming years. Maybe we will import in from places like Argentina and Uruguay. I see grass fed hamburger some places. (Aldis)
The drought in the West is forcing reduced herd size. There simply is not enough forage for the rancher’s normal size herd to eat. So he must sell off cattle and operate at say, 50% of his normal herd size.
Have you ever seen a Colorado feed lot? 100,000 head on a couple hundred acres. When the feed prices and all your other expenses double, what else can they do? I guess we’ll be eating our seed corn next. The globalists are going to make this catastrophe biblical in proportion.
Liberals will love the reduction in herd size. Reduced bovine flatulence.