Feed Business Worldwide: October / November 2012
A meat line in transition: Global beef looks to the south and east
By Eric J. Brooks
For over half a century, beef has been the agribusiness world's slow, unfortunate cousin. Stuck with far lower feed conversion efficiency that poultry or swine, cattle requires not just additional feed but far more land and water.
Consequently, beef's popularity fell as populations and feed prices increased. With only a handful of countries possessing sufficient arable land, water and feed for efficient production, governments rarely give cattle the subsidies routinely handed out to poultry, pork or aquaculture farmers.
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