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if ylarlings get considerably cheaper compared to calves, the short fed cattle might be a better 'deal than they were in 1959.
The feeder will do well to look into heifers. They are more of a problem and rate of gain is not quite as fast as steers, but there is a price cushion to compensate.
At last Fall’s feeder calf sales, heifers sold from $4.50 to $5.00 cheaper than steers, but the spread between heifers and steers when sold for slaughter was only about $1.50 to $2.00.
For any beef operation, it is well to remember that low quality stuff drops faster than high quality on a declining market. For the particular direction your own operation ought to take, don’t spare the penciL
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After some three years of declining prices, the rest of the nation still indicates it will turn out more birds in 1960.
Big increrses are indicated in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa •where cheap corn gves a feed cost^ advantage and in Caifomia where disease losses and housing costs are low.
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