Beef-on-Dairy Calf Prices Are Dropping: What Feedlots Say Dairy Producers Need to Know

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The conversation dairy producers need to hear isn’t always the one they want to hear.

Trista Brown-Priest, operations manager at Cattle Empire LLC in Satanta, Kan., has been feeding beef-on-dairy cattle since her grandfather retired and built a dairy in 2004. Back then, they were feeding straight Holsteins — the calves nobody wanted. The ones worth maybe $50 if you were lucky.

Today, beef-on-dairy calves command top dollar and have become a critical revenue stream for dairy operations navigating volatile milk markets.

But Brown-Priest sees storm clouds forming. And she thinks dairy producers need to start planning for what comes next.

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