Word: beef
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week, despite the peak popularity of their product, U.S. cattlemen were in the dumps. In the Kansas City stockyards, beef on the hoof sold for $14.50 a hundred pounds, near the lowest point in a decade and about 50% less than four years ago. Said Jay Taylor, past president of the American National Cattlemen's Association: "Plenty of cattlemen are going broke." Undoubtedly many ranchers who jumped in to make a quick killing when prices were sky-high were being hamstrung. But many veteran cowmen were still making money, although, as a group, ranchers were just about breaking...
Market Stampede. Actually, the cattlemen had ambushed themselves. In 1951 and 1952, with ordinary beeves selling at an extraordinary $30 per 100 lbs. and choice bringing as high as $36, the cattlemen had gone to work to breed and feed cattle as never before, boosted the total number of beef cattle from 53 million in 1951 to 63 million in 1955. Last fall the market was stampeded by 50% more beef than five years ago. Inevitably, prices started to slide...
...prices, however, are only a partial explanation for the great shift in eating habits that turned Americans from pork to beef eating (13.6 lbs. of beef for every eleven of pork). Another reason is the increasing efficiency of cattlemen at breeding and feeding, which has not only turned out beefier animals (in 100 years the average weight of a yearling has been doubled) but also tastier meat with more sirloin, chops and roasts and fewer poor cuts. What the U.S. wants in beef, the U.S. gets, thanks to the great progress in developing new and better breeds of cattle...
...environment and multiplied on the wild ranges. By the time the Lone Star State won its independence, there were 80,000 longhorns in Texas, more critters than humans. Yet by 1920 the longhorn was almost extinct. It carried too much leg, flank and horn in proportion to edible beef, and cowmen simply could not afford to keep...
...virtues. The Shorthorn-for a time the most popular-is massive and placid but critics say it suffers from heat and a tendency to sterility. The white-faced Hereford-its successor and still the leading U.S. breed-is hailed by many ranchers as a hardy forager and the best beef animal in the world. But other cowmen complain that it is prone to some diseases such as cancer eye and udder burn. The Aberdeen Angus, still growing in popularity, is first-rate under ideal conditions. But it has a reputation for being hard to handle. The hump-backed Brahman, immune...