The cow-calf stage in raising beef cattle is part of the U.S. agricultural landscape, with a wide variation in farm revenue and production practices across the United States. Unlike other sectors in which farms are becoming larger, a relatively large percentage of beef cow-calf enterprises are still small-scale.
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According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service’s latest Census of Agriculture, more than 622,000 of the 1.9 million U.S. farms -- about 33 percent -- had at least one beef cow at the end of 2022.
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