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Beef Cattle Industry - The Last 25 Years - What Happened?
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<blockquote data-quote="JWBrahman" data-source="post: 1194506" data-attributes="member: 18439"><p>Australian Cattleman nailed it with this quote:</p><p></p><p><u><em><strong>"The mark of a good cattle breeder is one that can satisfy new demands but not to sacrifice the doing ability of their cattle. Not to chase trends and fads."</strong></em></u></p><p></p><p>The biggest thing to change here in the last five years has been the outside money that has poured into cattle. Instead of family operations we have corporate operations with investors expecting a certain percentage return and accountants running the numbers from hundreds of miles away. Many of these operations have such high input costs I am wondering who is getting stuck paying for them. Looks to me like if you get in bed with these guys you are probably going to eat a lot of that yourself. That makes satisfying demands without satisfying the doing ability of cattle more important than ever.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JWBrahman, post: 1194506, member: 18439"] Australian Cattleman nailed it with this quote: [u][i][b]"The mark of a good cattle breeder is one that can satisfy new demands but not to sacrifice the doing ability of their cattle. Not to chase trends and fads."[/b][/i][/u] The biggest thing to change here in the last five years has been the outside money that has poured into cattle. Instead of family operations we have corporate operations with investors expecting a certain percentage return and accountants running the numbers from hundreds of miles away. Many of these operations have such high input costs I am wondering who is getting stuck paying for them. Looks to me like if you get in bed with these guys you are probably going to eat a lot of that yourself. That makes satisfying demands without satisfying the doing ability of cattle more important than ever. [/QUOTE]
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