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Drought, COVID and the cattle cycle
Feedstuffs in Focus
English - August 20, 2021 19:06 - 12 minutes - 11.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsBusiness News News Business Marketing agriculture cattle industry agribusiness agriculture economics animal health animal nutrition beef chicken farming feed industry Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
We’re on the tail end of the cattle cycle, according to Oklahoma State University agricultural economist Derrell Peel, and a combination of COVID-19’s supply chain disruptions and drought across large swaths of cattle country have fueled a very interesting run in the cattle markets. How have those factors altered the outlook for cattle producer profitability over the next 12 months?
In this episode we talk with Dr. Peel, a highly-respected expert in cattle marketing, about what’s happening as the industry works through a backlog of cattle caused by last year’s COVID-forced shutdowns. Peel discusses the cattle cycle in general, where we are at the moment, and which segments of the industry are making money and the ongoing concern about drought.
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