Beef Industry Charts

Below are my projected long-run slaughter steer planning prices for the current cattle cycle. This chart in past of a 3-chart series on long-run planning price that have been posted to this web site.

It is recommend that you pull off all three charts and study them as you build your ranch business plan for 2005 and beyond.

For those of you that have went through drought and are now contemplating re-population of your beef cow herd, it is absolutely critical that you study these planning prices as you launch your re-population program.

I am projecting that many re-population programs will end up being done with expensive replacement females leading to becoming a high-cost producer.