date:Jan 14, 2013
e University Cooperative Extension livestock marketing specialist. Beef demand remains the biggest unknown in the beef industry. Time will tell just how severe the squeeze will be on industry margins in 2013.
Peel said many analysts expect the 2013 numbers to be followed by a 2014 decrease of 4.5% or more, and those two years would represent the largest percentage decrease since the late 1970s.
Beef production in 2012 decreased by approximately 1.1% compared to 2011 with a 3.3% decrease in sla