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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock New. Staff Writer
For more than half a century, America’s cattle herds have peaked in numbers in 10-year cycles, allowing supply to outdistance demand and dropping the bottom out of the beef market.
At VPI’s annual beef cattle management school held last Wednesday at Graves Mountain Lodge in Syria, marketing specialist K. C. Williams explained how farmers can learn to read warning signs of an impending price crisis in time to institute growth controls.
Williams operated a livestock farm in Rappahannock following his graduation from VPI and served as extension agent in Halifax and Pittsylvania counties before concentrating on the marketing aspect of beef management.
Selected Virginia Cattleman of the Year, he has also received the Virginia 4-H All-Star Alumni Key Award and the National County Agents Distinguished Service Award. “I got my PhD in marketing back in Rappahannock County from Tommie Eastham,” Williams
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