Cattlemen president talks beef’s challenges, opportunities

Franzen discusses trends in beef, intimate tie between beef, corn 

  • Local feedlot owner Preston Franzen stands near the feeding bunk of a pen of feeder calves at his Franzen Feeders yards near Stockham. As a former Western Nebraska ranch kid and now the president of the York-Hamilton County Cattlemen, he loves to talk about the challenges, opportunities and future of the beef industry.
    Local feedlot owner Preston Franzen stands near the feeding bunk of a pen of feeder calves at his Franzen Feeders yards near Stockham. As a former Western Nebraska ranch kid and now the president of the York-Hamilton County Cattlemen, he loves to talk about the challenges, opportunities and future of the beef industry.

    With continually rising demand for beef among consumers worldwide and consistently high prices for beef at the grocery store, one might think anyone involved in the cattle industry would be riding high right now. However, the situation on the ground for people at all levels of the business – whether running a cow/calf operation or finishing calves at a feedlot – is much more complex, with profit m…