If you ask James Mitchell about the bright side of the 2022 drought, he’ll tell you this: Better now than then.
“I’d much rather be having the conversation about current prices than about what they were one or two years ago,” Mitchell said on Jan. 23, addressing about two dozen attendees at the year’s first livestock and forage production meeting, held in Friendship, Ark.
Mitchell, Extension livestock economist for the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture, said market prices for beef cattle are now significantly higher than…
