Dr. Derrell Peel, Oklahoma State University Extension Livestock Marketing Specialist, offers his economic analysis of the beef cattle industry as part of the weekly series known as the “Cow Calf Corner” published electronically by Dr. Peel and Mark Johnson. Today, Dr. Peel shares photos from his trip abroad.
I’m finishing up a study abroad trip with students from Oklahoma State University visiting Ireland and Scotland. Here are a few scenes of the expansive grasslands in Scotland that support livestock agriculture.
Sheep and cattle production are very important in Scotland.
We visited the Royal Highland Show…sort of a massive state fair…lots of agricultural
machinery and cattle…some familiar and some not so familiar. It’s not often you see modern machinery against a backdrop of historical architecture.
Scotland has a vibrant agricultural industry that operates against a long and rich historical backdrop.
