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The Beef Cattle Situation

Purdue University, Indiana

Abstract

Economic Development of Beef Cattle

Beef cattle are pioneers of agriculture. In the first approach of man into a new and uncivilized territory, heralding the tide of oncoming civilization, beef cattle have been the agencies that have driven the wild and untamable animals from the land and replaced them with stock capable of being improved and husbanded by the hand of man.

The rise of more intensive agriculture has pushed the pioneer and the beef cow farther and farther from the center of population. With an increase in population came a breaking up of the pastures and ranges that have always been associated with the beef cow and beef-cattle production. The beef cow was superseded by the wheat field, the corn field, the hog, and the dairy cow. According to the figures of the United States census, the center of beef-cattle population in 1840 was in West Virginia. By 1850 it had moved westward to a point just south of Lexington, Ky.