date:Jul 07, 2014
ected herd rebuilding there will limit feeder supplies in coming years.
Reliable cattle inventory data is much harder to find in Mexico but there are strong indications that total cattle numbers have decreased significantly in the past few years including a sharp drop in the cow herd inventory.
Drought forced liquidation in 2011 and 2012 resulted in unsustainably large Mexican cattle exports to the U.S. Not surprisingly, U.S imports of Mexican cattle dropped by a third in 2013 compared to 20