COVID-19's Impact On Livestock Marketing
By Curt Arens
Delta Farm Press
In 2019, if you would have told Mike Martz about how COVID-19 would disrupt the operation and marketing of cattle in his partnership 3,400-head capacity custom cattle feeding business, he wouldn’t have believed it was possible. Yet that is exactly what faced Larson Farms, located about 60 miles west of Chicago, when COVID-19 struck and completely halted fed cattle delivery for cattle feedyards across the country for more than five weeks.