The Nutritional Management session has attendees lending all ears, listening to forecasts on grain prices and the future of ethanol production.
Dr. Ted McCollum, Texas Cooperative Extension beef cattle specialist in Amarillo, kicked off Monday's session with a point to ponder.
"Are (feed prices) really that high?" McCollum said. "Seven or eight years ago, what we're you selling a 500-pound calf for? Eighty to ninety cents a pound? Now at $1.30, are feed costs really that high? The price of feed has gone up, but at same time look at the value of those calves - the price of calves has increased faster than the price of feed."
-BLAIR FANNIN
