The conditions are forcing some to sell all or part of their herds ahead of schedule, decisions with future ramifications for ranchers, farmers and Americans who eat beef.
from the U.S. Department of Agriculture had the nation's inventory of cattle and calves at 98.8 million head as of July 1, down 2% from a year earlier.
"If I have to sell my cows, they are not going to be around next year to have a calf for me, so I'm really cutting into the capital of my ranch," Anderson told CBS MoneyWatch. "Drought impacts have accelerated sharply in the southern Plains," Derrell Peel, a livestock marketing specialist with Oklahoma State University extension, wrote in an emailed report on Monday.
"It will affect beef supplies; I don't think there's any doubt about that," said Boening, whose operations includes about 350 beef cows and 450 dairy cows.
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