Reduced slaughter exacerbated by cow and heifer retention

Cattle producers are culling fewer cows due to the improved pasture prospects for this spring and the early part of the summer. This likely means fewer cows will be going to slaughter until the fall culling season. The paucity of cows for slaughter this spring, summer, and early fall will likely have implications for supplies of processing beef and ground beef production through summer 2015. Read more at Drovers CattleNetwork…