It's a great time to raise cattle

Skyrocketing beef prices please ranchers

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Photographer: KSHB
Copyright 2011 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

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Posted: 02/14/2012

SPRING HILL, Kan. - The U.S. has fewer cattle than at any time since the 1950s, but America's appetite for beef has not waned.

It means higher prices at the meat counter and booming business for ranchers like Susie Mackey.

Click on the video to heat how higher prices for beef are helping Mackey and other ranchers who survived the drought.

Copyright 2012 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

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