Excerpt from Livestock and Meat Situation, Vol. 228: August 1979 Fed cattle marketings this fall are also expected to be sharply lower than a year ago. However, because of higher slaughter weights, fed beef production will not decline as much as slaughter. Also, cow slaughter will increase seasonally in the second half. Recently, wholesale beef and fed cattle prices have come under strong downward pressure from the large supplies of competing meats and the heavy dressed weights on cattle. Prices for Choice yield grade 3 steer beef have declined from highs of around $115 per 100 pounds during the spring to $90 in early August. Choice steers at Omaha dropped to near $60 in early August. They are expected to remain under pressure but may strengthen a little from current levels and average $65 to $68 for the summer quarter. Even though the farm-to-retail price spread remains record wide, retail beef prices have begun to ease off and are expected to continue to do so through the fall. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.