Posted on 03/01/2023 1:48:11 PM PST by Golden Eagle
The beef cattle inventory in the United States is at its lowest point since 1962, according to data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
The USDA’s biannual cattle report showed that, as of Jan. 1, 2023, there is a 89.3 million head inventory — which is three percent lower than the total from a year ago and the lowest since 2015. Of that number, 38.3 million cows and heifers have calved.
Additionally, there are 28.9 million beef cows, which are those explicitly bred for slaughter and meat sales, as of the start of this year — which is down nearly four percent from last year and the lowest the agency has recorded since 1962.
University of Kentucky’s Kenny Burdine and James Mitchell, extension livestock economist for the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture, recently explained that “There was no question that the beef cow herd had gotten smaller” and that the cattle production’s downward trend does not seem like it will reverse in 2023.”
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The Dutton’s will be pleased, they need to sell a herd.
They want us eating bugs.
“Where’s The BEEF?”
Lowest inventory with highest prices I’ve ever seen in my life...I’m 79.
What is the bug inventory?
I really need to set a panel, so I can set a breaker, to put in a dedicated beef freezer. Then buy a half a beef from a local rancher.
Well, at current prices demand has to be down, so it would make sense that inventory is dropping.
My wife and I bought 8 tri tips at Costco this weekend and we had people staring at us. And not everyone was friendly about it, which was really strange. We are contemplating buying a whole cow next year.
Maybe this will be something we'll still be remembering in the 2024 elections. If only we cud stop the steal.
And we had a third less people in 1962.
MRNA is going into livestock that feeds us. Do we need a seperate died suddenly category/ tracking?
🤠
Nobody had the stomach for it.
There is a cycle in the numbers of beef cattle for slaughter, and the rise or fall in prices, that measures out to roughly a ten or eleven year period. This is tied directly to the numbers of mature cows and heifers that are held back from slaughter, which occurs when prices are low, and the depletion of the numbers when the prices are high.
This is not the result of any government action, or a concerted effort by a cartel of meat processing corporations or farmer groups. The fact that beef can be frozen and held in storage tends to flatten out the curve a little, but the effect is minimal in the long run. Live animals still have to be managed, and the logistics of keeping these herds fed and maintained in a good state of health, mean something like a boom and bust in the trade over years, five-six lean years for four-five of very good years from the point of view of the producers.
Supply and demand, coupled with the economics of getting the herd fed out for slaughter and/or future breeding stock, directly affect the price of beef. Unless you undertake to raise your own beef in the back yard, feed it out and slaughter it yourself, there is not much that can be done to break out of this cycle.
Nobody said ranching was easy.
Yet the US Government is planning to shoot cattle from helicopters in SE New Mexico.
https://time.com/6258043/new-mexico-shoot-cows-helicopter/
“Eat more chicken” Yeah but, chickens are being slaughtered by the millions because of Bird Flu.
Then I watched a western that showed them moving the herd in the winter.
Then I applied at a Nunnery...they said I was too wild.
Worldwide effort cutting the food supply,
Nothing to see here.
-fJRoberts-
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