Word: hoofed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last year's meat shortage into a glut, as a result of heavy production and a continuing reluctance by budgetconscious housewives to buy meat as freely as they once did. Prices of live hogs have dropped as much as 29% below a year ago, and cattle on the hoof are down 15%. Financially pressed feed-lot operators indeed claim that they are being forced to sell cattle for slaughter for $150 to $200 per animal less than they paid to buy and raise the same steers...
Helpful Profit. Some operators may not be able to hold out until then. During the past five years, attracted by the vision of profits on the hoof, investors from Wall Street and other homes off the range stampeded into the feed-lot business, starting many new lots in the Texas Panhandle. Many were thinly financed because their owners thought that beef prices would always go up, ensuring that additional capital would be easy to raise. Now they are having trouble raising new money, and the betting in the trade is that a number will have to liquidate...
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...there was large-scale immigration from Western Europe. On the pampas, a flat plain stretching out in a semicircle from Buenos Aires, the immigrants found the richest, deepest topsoil in the world. It was ideal for raising cattle and crops, and still is. The number of cattle on the hoof today is more than double the country's population of 25 million...
...beef shortage is real enough in the stores and packing houses, it is merely a form of impromptu theatrics staged by the cattlemen to get the freeze lifted. Though meat is in tight supply in many parts of the world, there is no genuine scarcity of beef on the hoof in this nation. The U.S. now has 2% more cattle on feed and 6% more breeding cows than at this time last year. Ranchers and feed-lot operators can collect alltime high prices for their animals but are holding them off the market, betting that they will be worth...