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| The Arizona Cattlemen's Association Industry News - Tumbling Cattle Prices Worry Arizona Ranchers | |||||||||||||
| Excerpted from an article as published in the Arizona Republic, Associated Press Arthur H. Rotstein, Nov 26, 2007: Persistent drought, higher corn and grain prices force many to cull older animals from herds. TUCSON - Now that Thanksgiving has come and gone, it's time to talk about, well, beef. Arizona ranchers have something to beef about all right. And some of that has to do with two other ingestibles: corn and water. Continued drought conditions are forcing many Arizona ranchers to thin their cattle herds this fall and winter, or to plan on doing so in the spring. "They have to cull deeper, which means they take cattle that they would keep that might be 8 years old and sell them and keep the younger ones," said C.B. "Doc" Lane of the Arizona Beef Council. Read the remainder of this article at the Arizona Republic website |
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