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Re: [OM] You know you are in Iowa...

Subject: Re: [OM] You know you are in Iowa...
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 14:38:57 -0400
2003 didn't sound so old to me.

Chuck Norcutt


Ken Norton wrote:
>> <http://beef.unl.edu/FAQ/200307250.shtml>
>>
> 
> 
> Old statistic.
> 
> Also, one other factor which makes some of those numbers a little
> misleading. "Raised" and "Finished" are two different things. A lot of
> cattle are moved from one state to another for finishing.  The feed lots in
> some of these states are immense with tens of thousands of cattle on site at
> any given time.  In Iowa, there are very very few feed lots and the largest
> ones top out at maybe 2000 head.
> 
> The most important factor in play is that Iowa soil is mostly too valuable
> to run cattle on and if it is being run on it, it's usually on off-years
> when the farmers are attempting to rest the soil.  Do the numbers--when your
> top-grade soil is producing on average 200-240 bushel of corn an acre (with
> some fields pushing 300+), why would anybody in their right mind run cattle
> on it instead?
> 
> But Iowa's corn-fed beef is world-known.  It really is different and doesn't
> have than venison taste to it that shrub-fed Texas beef is known for.  There
> is a reason why Texas beef has to be BBQ'd.
> 
> ;)
> 
> AG
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