A livestock market specialist says all signs are pointing to growing cattle and hog supplies heading into 2018.
University of Missouri’s Scott Brown says that means producers are going to keep a close eye on costs in 2018. “It is amazing how quick these industries are to expand to positive profit signals and how slow they are to respond to negative or at least break-even profit signals,” he says.
He tells Brownfield producers who can keep their production costs low will remain in business the longest.
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