When winter storms and extreme temperatures moved through the Midwest, cattle backed up in the system. In an interview with the Red River Farm Network, Denison (Iowa) Livestock Auction’s J.R. Pauley said the harsh weather may also cost cattle producers in the long term. “When cattle go through this brutal stretch, they don’t drink right and they don’t eat right so you could have a four-to-eight percent pencil shrink and not even know it.”
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