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JonSCKs
Posted 11/27/2022 13:01 (#9952360 - in reply to #9952246)
Subject: Texas has almost twice as many cattle as #2 Nebraska


dewgubbe - 11/27/2022 11:57

Why are there so many cattle in Hereford? Is the climate that much more stable that they can afford the extra freight costs for feed brought in? What makes it a practical decision to raise cattle there?


I constantly turn down feed loads to north Texas. The rate is $4/mi usually, but there is nothing to haul back. You either drive down to Houston and load out of the port, or bounce back to Kansas and get salt, or over to Oklahoma to get fert. None of the options net enough $/mi to make it worth going to Texas in the first place. Some guys do it though, just not me


Texas is like cattle nirvana.. back during the civil war.. Texans left to fight for the south.. it rained.. the grass exploded.. and so did the cattle numbers…. All you had to do (simplistic but almost..) was round them up and drive them north to the rail lines..  Texas grasslands Were made for cattle!l..  the panhandles have water and corn and feedlots.

https://beef2live.com/story-ranking-states-cattle-89-108182

Yes this is shifting north.. slowly as packers relocate but still.. “the cattle”.. cow calf herds.. are in the south.. Texas across to Kentucky.. or the plains.. New Mexico up through Montana.. then they converge to the feedlots to the packers.



Edited by JonSCKs 11/27/2022 13:02
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