The US Beef Ranching Industry Includes about 750,000 Operators with Combined Annual Revenue of USD50 Billion.DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c61001) has announced the addition of Beef Cattle Ranching - Industry Profile to their offering. Covering over 175 industries and updated every 90 days, the First Research Industry Profiles do the "heavy lifting" for you saving your sales team valuable research time, enhancing client communications and giving you the competitive edge to win more business. Easy-to-use and up-to-date, the Industry Profiles provide you with the industry research necessary to stay on top of constant changes in select industries. The First Research profiles help target your products and services directly to prospects. The Industry Profiles provide the information and understanding you need to engage new prospects during the sales process A sales process is a systematic approach for performing product or service sales. The reasons for having a sales process include seller and buyer risk management, achieving standardized customer interaction in sales and scalable revenue generation. , deepen customer relationships and strengthen your own bottom line. Brief Excerpt from Industry Overview Chapter: The US beef ranching industry includes about 750,000 operators with combined annual revenue of $50 billion. Only about 5,000 operations have more than 500 head of cattle. The industry is highly fragmented: the 50 largest operators hold less than 2 percent of the market. COMPETITIVE LANDSCAPE Demand is driven by food prices, population growth, and global trade policies. The profitability of individual operations depends on production efficiency and anticipating market demand. Large operators have some advantages in volume purchasing and efficient use of labor. Small operators can compete successfully by producing special grades of beef cattle and by using & labor. PRODUCTS, OPERATIONS & TECHNOLOGY Major products are beef cattle and calves ready to be slaughtered or ready for finishing& in feedlots. Annual US sales of beef animals include about 45 million cattle and 10 million calves. The operations of beef ranchers revolve around Verb 1. revolve around - center upon; "Her entire attention centered on her children"; "Our day revolved around our work" center, center on, concentrate on, focus on, revolve about breeding cows, feeding cattle, and providing veterinary care. Beef cattle ranchers mainly breed their own animals, with a traditional calving calving act of parturition in a bovine female, and presumably in any animal that bears a calf as its newborn. See also block calving, ease of calving. calving-to-conception interval season in the early spring. Cows can produce one calf per year and are either naturally bred naturally bred see bull-bred herd. by a bull or artificially inseminated in·sem·i·nate tr.v. in·sem·i·nat·ed, in·sem·i·nat·ing, in·sem·i·nates 1. To introduce or inject semen into the reproductive tract of (a female). 2. To sow seed in. by a technician. Beef cows have a nine month gestation period Gestation period In mammals, the interval between fertilization and birth. It covers the total period of development of the offspring, which consists of a preimplantation phase (from fertilization to implantation in the mother's womb), an embryonic phase . From birth until weaning weaning, n the period of transition from breast feeding to eating solid foods. weaning the act of separating the young from the dam that it has been sucking, or receiving a milk diet provided by the dam or from artificial sources. , calves depend on their mother's milk and forage resources. Calves are typically weaned wean tr.v. weaned, wean·ing, weans 1. To accustom (the young of a mammal) to take nourishment other than by suckling. 2. when they weigh between 400 and 600 pounds and are either retained by the rancher or sold. Weaned calves either ... Industry Overview Quarterly Industry Update Business Challenges Trends AND Opportunities Call Preparation Questions Financial Information Website and Media Links Glossary of Acronyms For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c61001 |
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