Beef Industry ANEQ 101 Questions And
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U.S Beef Industry ANS✔✔ -The beef industry is the largest money-
generating commodity in all of agriculture, amounting to ⅕ of yearly cash
receipts.
-U.S. gross annual income from beef: $50 billion
-970,000 beef cattle operations in the U.S.
-average number of cows is 17 head.
-U.S. raises 7% of world's cattle and 20% of world's beef and veal.
-our system of producing meat is more efficient and cost effective way
-primarily around the rest of the world, no feedlots.
Purpose of Beef Industry ANS✔✔ -Beef, along with all ruminants, are
valuable because they can subsist and thrive on resources that would
otherwise go to waste.
-Of the 1,029 million acres of agricultural land in the lower 48 states, 57% is
grazing land.
-57% of we just cannot farm it at all
-only good for grazing livestock
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-Coastline swampland
-Forest and dormant crop land
-Mountains and high elevation
Grassland ANS✔✔ Ruminants can convert grass and other forages into high-
quality food and by-products humans can consume.
Early settlers bought cattle from... ANS✔✔ -Europe for work and produce
milk and meat.
-Before 1492 Columbus discovered the United States.
-Mayflower brought cattle over on the boats.
-first used for milk production
-Buffalo herds beforehand in huge herds.
After the Civil War (1861-1865) ANS✔✔ -Shorthorns were imported to
improve native crosses.
-dual purpose breed
-produced meat and milk
-imported from Europe
-Texas Longhorn were shipped --East to feed the growing population.
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-came from Spain brought by Spaniards
-sent over from the Catholic church
-cattle that were left there and went wild on their own
-Herefords, and later Angus and black baldies, were introduced to increase
vigor.
-make more gentle
-crossed on the Texas Longhorns.
-black baldies
-bald face
-cross bred and cannot be registered
After World War II (1939-1945) ANS✔✔ -technological and industrial
innovations led to surpluses of grains which ended up fed to cattle.
-tractors to get across land and harvest faster
-irrigation and did not have to depend on rain all the time.
-production on corn tripled in supply
-Americans developed a taste for grain-fed beef which persists today.
-fed to cattle
-they got fatter and marbled and then shipped
-increased in demand
Historical Perspectives ANS✔✔ -As the demand for grain-fed cattle grew, a
new segment developed, the feedlot industry, that involved concentrating
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