Beef Products - What products can you think of?
Beef Products - Beef (Roast, Steak, Hamburger, etc.)
- Bi-products
- bone china leather sporting goods luggage
- bone meal biscuits
- boots and shoes paint
- candles pet foods
- cosmetics photographic film
- crayons plastics
- deodorants shampoo/cream rinses
- detergents shaving cream
- doggie chews soaps
- fabric softeners textiles
- floor wax toothpaste
- glue upholstery
- insecticides violin strings
Types of BEEF Producers - Seed Stock - Produce close to “perfect” animals, sell their semen or embryos.
- Elite Breeders/Pure Bred Breeder- Try to breed the “perfect” animal. They also show these animals to build a better reputation as a breeder.
Commercial Cow Calf Producer - Means that they aren’t registered to a specific breed
- Often crossbred
- Breed cows annually
- Keep heifer calves to breed
- Castrate bull calves, raise as steers for meat
KY is the largest cattle producer East of the Mississippi Feedlots - Cow calf producers ship loads of cattle to them.
- Typical load is 40,000lbs.
- They feed and keep the animal’s health up for a very low price for the cow calf producer.
- They each get part of the profit after the animal sells for slaughter.
- Large scale operations that, as humanely as possible slaughter animals on a large scale for human consumption.
Wholesaler - Sell large portions of meat to companies for them to make their own products with.
- Example Packing Plants Sell to Kroger
Retailer Consumer The Beef Industry INFO. - The average person in this country consumes 48 lbs of beef a year
- Meat is among the most nutritionally complete foods that humans consume
- The average beef herd size is 100 animals
- Most slaughter animals are crossbreds
- When animals are slaughtered they are around 18-24 months and weigh 800-1500 lbs
Kentucky BEEF Facts - Kentucky is home to over 1.1 million beef cows and ranks 5th nationally in total number of farms
- Kentucky’s Leading Beef Producing County’s
- 1. Barren 4. Madison
- 2. Pulaski 5. Breckinridge
- 3. Warren
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BEEF Facts - THE United States Top Producing States
- 1.Texas
- 2. Missouri
- 3. Oklahoma
- 4. Nebraska
- 5. South Dakota
- US BEEF INDUSTRY WAS WORTH
- $73 BILLION DOLLARS IN 2009
Discussion Questions - From an agriculturalists mindset, how much do you think the average person knows about the beef industry?
- When things like recalls take place, is it important to be educated?
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