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This not to say that everything is all roses for the industry. Higher crop and feed ingredient prices are a particular challenge for feedlots and cow-calf and stocker producers .Labor issues are pervasive across the industry with lack of available and reliable labor impacting all sectors from ranch and feedlot production to packing, wholesale, retail and food service.

ANALYSIS: Cattle and beef markets ready to move on

Derrell Peel, Oklahoma State Extension Livestock Market Economist
November 9, 2021
Agriculture

The pandemic and other market shocks (i.e. packing plant fire, unprecedented winter storm, cyber-attack, etc.) since 2019 have resulted in impacts and residual effects that affect cattle and beef markets in different ways and over different lengths of time. Much of the challenge in 2021 has been to get numerous cattle markets and a multitude […]