date:Jan 31, 2013
ituation is precarious, said Jim Robb, director of the Livestock Marketing Information Center in Denver. Both hay production and hay ending stocks have suffered as pasture conditions deteriorated sharply during the 2012 growing season. The challenge for beef and dairy cattle producers is to control costs of forage, a necessary component of the cattle raising process, in a climate of rising prices fed by persistent dry weather across much of the United States.
All feedstuffs have increased cost-