My Beef Off submission...
Good cattle feeders factor in 1-1.5% death loss as a part of their breakeven.
Kansas has roughly 2.3m head on feed at any given time. Slaughter about 2x that annually.
If you're losing 1 pct which would be high then that's 800-900 head a week for the whole state.
Tom
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