Floridas Beef Industry Slide 2 Floridas beef industry reported
sales of $448 million in 2011. BrangusMaine-Anjou Slide 3 Florida
has 16,694 ranches at last count. (2007 Census of Agriculture)
Angus Hereford Slide 4 Florida ranks 10 th nationally with 940,000
beef cows. Calves born in 2011 totaled 890,000. Charolais Limousin
Slide 5 Floridas ranchers shipped 700,000 feeder calves to other
states in 2006. Beefmaster Gelbveih Slide 6 Okeechobee is the
states leading beef cattle county with 140,000 head of beef cattle.
SimmentalBraford Slide 7 Florida has 7 of the nations 25 largest
ranches. Examples: Deseret Ranch, King Ranch, and Adams Ranch
Brahman Florida Cracker Cattle
