1. Florida’s Beef Industry

2. Florida’s beef industry reported sales of $448 million in 2011. BrangusMaine-Anjou

3. Florida has 16,694 ranches at last count. (2007 Census of Agriculture) Angus Hereford

4. Florida ranks 10 th nationally with 940,000 beef cows. Calves born in 2011 totaled 890,000. Charolais Limousin

5. Florida’s ranchers shipped 700,000 feeder calves to other states in 2006. Beefmaster Gelbveih

6. Okeechobee is the state’s leading beef cattle county with 140,000 head of beef cattle. SimmentalBraford

7. Florida has 7 of the nation’s 25 largest ranches. Examples: Deseret Ranch, King Ranch, and Adam’s Ranch Brahman Florida Cracker Cattle