11.   By fall, though, fewer young cattle will be available for fattening, because ranchers last spring and summer reduced their breeding herds to cut feeding costs.

12.   Cattle futures fell on concern there may be a supply glut after the government said young cattle moved into feedlots in increased numbers for the third straight month.

13.   Calf hide is leather made from the skins of young cattle.

14.   Declining corn prices encourage feedlot operators to buy more young cattle to fatten for slaughter because lower feed costs make their operations more profitable, analysts said.

15.   During the summer, feedlot operators increased purchases of young cattle as lower feed costs boosted margins for raising the animals to market weight.

16.   During the warmer months, some ranchers keep young cattle on grass to fatten them to market weight, rather than selling them to feedlots.

17.   Elsewhere, feeder cattle futures fell as corn prices rose, making it more expensive to raise the young cattle to market weight.

18.   Expectations linger that supplies of young cattle for sale to feedlots will tighten later this year, at a time when beef markets strengthen.

19.   Evidence of mad cow disease has never been found in young cattle.

20.   Feeder cattle rose as a drop in feed costs made it more profitable to fatten the young cattle for slaughter, increasing demand.