Cattle is the high's all-time most prominent: the 2011 price Outlook and play development (1)

The prices of the bovine animals hitting all-time high I decided, on the one hand, and the trend in the short and long term in the broader reasons for the view.

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Where is the beef? Animals of the bovine species details about the prices Hit all-time high

Cattle prices are all-time high, thanks to a strong 25% rally during the previous 12 months. Look at the prices in the last 25 years:

Many of the long-term factors have provided significant and continuous tail-wind, from the meat prices, the prices of cereals. Grains are rallied quickly during the past year; iPath DJ-UBS grains Subindex Total Return ETN (the COMPANY Arca: JJG), followed by an index of maize, wheat and soybeans futures basketball has grown 59% year over year.

It takes a lot of grain to produce half of the market in beef and veal — approximately 8 pounds of grain per pound. Thus, the grain price increase, will become more expensive, means the feed the cow, which inevitably that gets passed to the purchaser together with the herd. Since 2006, raw materials prices have skyrocketed — and remained — and extended cost in excess of the amount of forced ranchers pare back to their herd acclimate levels.

But it is not only to keep the livestock inventories of larger purchase costs. As a matter of fact, the herds were reduced steadily from 2004 drought and mad cow disease, a combination of shock absorbers. Together with the 2011 population is the smallest of 53 years.

At the same time, demand has never been as high. As consumers in the emerging markets such as China and India have improved, their diet is fast becoming "more American" — they take up, in accordance with the much more meat. According to Eric Ocrant, Oak Investment Group, the Director shall be three times as many beef consumers were now than 10 years ago.

It is therefore clear that, unlike in 2008, the current trend is short term, the market is the result of the shock. Instead, it is more the culmination of a slow, the surface of the developing countries, the trend of the bubbling using years.

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