The Beef Industry

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The Beef Industry
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Beef Products

• What products can you think of?

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Seed Stock Producers

• Produce close to perfect animals, sell their
  semen or embryos.
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Elite Breeders Producers

• Try to breed the perfect animal.
• Show these animals to build a better reputation
  as a breeder.

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Commercial Cow Calf Producer

• Means that they arent registered to a specific
  breed.
• Breed cows annually.
• Keep heifer calves to breed.
• Castrate bull calves, raise as steers for meat.

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KY is the largest cattle producer East of the
Mississippi
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Feedlots

• Cow calf producers ship loads of cattle to them.
• Typical load is 40,000lbs.
• They feed and keep the animals 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.

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Slaughterhouses or Packing Plants

• Large scale operations that, as humanely as
  possible slaughter animals on a large scale for
  human consumption.

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Wholesaler

• Sell large portions of meat to companies for
  them to make their own products with.

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Retailer

• Sell meat to the public.

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Consumer

• Thats YOU!

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Discussion Questions

• From an agriculturalists mindset, how much do you
  think the average person knows about the beef
  industry?

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Discussion Questions

• Is the beef industry humanely housing and feeding
  their livestock?

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Discussion Questions

• Is the beef industry performing the slaughtering
  and processing of meat as humanely as possible?

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Discussion Questions

• When things like recalls take place, is it
  important to be educated?

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Assignment

• Draw a diagram representing the beef industry.
• How does each section work together?
• Label each section.
• Draw a symbol to represent that section.
• In 4 words or more, describe each section.

• Seedstock Producers Make perfect animals, sell
  their genetics.

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Sections Discussed

• Seedstock Producers
• Elite breeders
• Commercial Cow/calf producers
• Feedlots
• Slaughterhouse/packing plant
• Wholesaler
• Retailer
• Consumer