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Contains information obtained from surveys of Kansas and Nebraska feedlot operations. Factors examined include: type of ownership; capacity; turnover rate; credit; seasonal variations; sex, grade, average weight, breed of cattle; marketing channels; trucking & procurement costs; shrinkage; and others.
This book relates the modern development of the Kansas beef cattle industry, combining both the history of production--including specific business problems and the significant work in upbreeding--and an examination of the marketing aspects of the industry that became so important during the twentieth century. Sharpest focus is on the period 1890 to 1940, after the Western beef industry had passed through the transition from using the expansive, openrange method of beef production to the more rational and organized methods of today.
In 1989, four Plains States, Texas, Kansas, Nebraska, and Colorado, marketed over 70 percent of the 22,955,000 cattle that were fed in 13 cattle feeding States. In 1955, six States, Iowa, Nebraska, California, Illinois, Colorado, and Kansas, marketed about the same percentage of 9,001,000 fed cattle. Cattle feedlots in 13 States decreased from about 164,000 in 1962 to about 47,000 in 1989. Seventy-nine lots finished almost one-third and 391 lots finished over two-thirds of the fed cattle in 1989. The over 460,000 smaller lots finished the remaining one-third.