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grass. Aesthetics are important in this county. It all meshes together. We have good water; we have decent soils foi grazing and a core of people whc understand cattle."
Bill McKenna if Virginia Tech's beef marketing specialist. He sees some improvement in prices for feeder cattle from last fall's low point, bul said, "I don't think it's going to be a very rapid bounce back.”
He notes that in the period from 1988 to 1993, calves weighing 500 tc 600 pounds averaged 90 cents pei pound, In the fall of 1996 the average selling price was 61 cents per pound, down about five cents from the fall ol 1995, he said. For producers of feedei calves that meant a drop of one third ir their income compared to the late '80s
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