An economist says the loss of Mexican feeder cattle is hitting U.S. feedlots hard, tightening supplies and driving up beef prices

A livestock economist says the U.S. supply chain is feeling the effects of the ban on live cattle imports from Mexico.   David Anderson with Texas A&M tells Brownfield, the U.S. historically have imported a lot of feeder cattle from Mexico.  “They go to Texas and the Southwest to feedlots,” he says.  “So, we’ve lost that value-added agriculture feeding those Mexican feeder cattle.”  […]

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