BILLINGS, Mont. — His fellow Americans eat a billion fewer pounds of beef a year than they did at the start of the Great Recession, but Shawmut cowboy Jim Taber isn’t rattled.
Cattle prices have never been higher. Ranchers are eyeing business expansion, while their Main Street counterparts struggle. The reason for Taber’s optimism? Exports.
“If everyone in China ate a hamburger a day, we’d be in good shape” is Taber’s mantra.