A livestock economist says placements will be the number to watch in this week’s Cattle on Feed report. Josh Maples with Mississippi State University Extension says, “We’re going into this report on the heels of 15 straight months of declining feedlot numbers.” He says that isn’t going to change anytime soon. “We had a little […]
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