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| We will be keeping more with the intent of selling some. And in general I believe there are more being kept. But it will take awhile to build numbers back and bet we never come close to past US herd size. The downsizing of the US herd was market driven but many of the results are fundamental changes. Lots of acres that will likely never see another cow. Everyone I know (that is still in business) is running less head on a given amount of land and probably should be running fewer yet because of decades (now) of off and on drought. If they expanded it's because someone else quit. Everyone talks about high cattle prices, but build a couple miles of fence, replace a bad stock well or stock trailer and it puts things in perspective. Livestock auction crowds look like a nursing home. | |
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Retaining Heifers poll
