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All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

1978

U.S. Beef Supply

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The Contribution Of Federal Land Grazing In The Eleven Western States To Total U.S. Beef Supply, Muhammad Rafiq May 1978

The Contribution Of Federal Land Grazing In The Eleven Western States To Total U.S. Beef Supply, Muhammad Rafiq

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The objectives of this study were to: 1) determine the contribution of federal land grazing to beef production in Utah and the 11 western states, and 2) trace the impact of hypothetical incremental reductions in federal land grazing in the 11 western states on total beef supply and retail beef prices in the United States.

The federal land animal units in the 11 western states were obtained from Bureau of Land Management and Forest Service records. The animal units were converted into the number of breeding cows and feeder calves totally dependent on federal land grazing, with the help of …