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of the calf crop is just about exhausted—meaning that future increases in beef output will rest heavily on expanding cattle numbers.
At the outset of the 1960 s fed cattle marketings accounted for only about half of all cattle sold. Nowadays they comprise roughly three-fourths of the total.
And while some further growth can be expected in the proportion of animals finished in feedlots, it will probably never exceed much more than 80 to 83 percent of total cattle marketings because of the continuous supply of aged cows culled from beef and dairy herds.
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