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Data Needs and Use for Orderly Production and Marketing in the Beef - Pork Sector
Abstract
Meat is basic in the modern diet and meat animals are a main- stay of modern agriculture. Expenditures for beef and pork were approximately six percent of each income dollar (after taxes) in 1967. The sale of meat animals provides a third of all dollars earned by the United States farmer.Livestock is produced in virtually every part of the United States. On January 1, of 1967, there were approximately 109 million cattle and calves, 54 million hogs, and 22 million sheep and lambs on United States farms. Except for minor increases and decreases, the general trend of cattle and calf inventories for the last 40 years has been increasing. The number of hogs for the same period increased until 1944 to a peak of 56 million head, but has generally decreased with minor fluctuations since then. Similarly, sheep and lamb increased until 1942 to a peak inventory of 56 million head, but have decreased since then."
Subject Area
Agricultural economics
Recommended Citation
TRIERWEILER, JOHN EDWIN, "Data Needs and Use for Orderly Production and Marketing in the Beef - Pork Sector" (1970). ETD collection for University of Nebraska-Lincoln. AAI7017765.
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/dissertations/AAI7017765