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- Florida's beef industry inventory is estimated to be $1.3 billion.
- Florida has 15,800 ranches at last count.
- Florida ranks just behind Kentucky and Tennessee among states east of the Mississippi in the # of cattle and calves.
- Florida ranks 12th nationaly with 950,000 beef brood cows, and 7th nationaly among states with the
number herds of more than 500 brood cows.
- Florida's ranchers shipped 470,921 feeder calves to other states in 2001.
- Osceola is the state's leading beef cattle county with 75,000 head of beef cattle.
- Florida has four of the nation's fifteen largest ranches.
- Florida has the largest ranch in the U.S. with more than 35,000 brood cows and more than 300,000 acres.
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