High Beef Prices Can't Hurry a Heifer
The price of beef in the supermarket is way up, and cattle ranchers can sell their calves now for pretty good money.
But Katie Baltzor says selling is “not something you just do.” Keeping a heifer instead means waiting two years before there is a calf.
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Take
This is the cattle version of a pipeline: the price signal arrives today; the heifer's calf arrives in two years.
Pushback
Which makes keeping a heifer a bet on the market two years out, not a simple response to today's high price.