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Beef is back!
To the editor:
Beef is back. That’s good news to those of us who enjoy eating beef, whether it’s a lean, tender steak; a convenient, flavorful roast; or a burger with all the trimmings. It’s also good news to those, of us who raise cattle.
Beef is big business. The beef industry is the single largest segment of American agriculture with sales of cattle and calves accounting for about 22 percent of total receipts from farm marketings. In Virginia cash receipts from cattle and calves totaled $420 million in 198b. And every dollar of cattle sales generates an additional $5 to $0 of business activity in the farm supply and food businesses.
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