If the question's in direct reference to the southwestern United States, the answer to that is yes. Most producers in the southwestern USA raise beef cattle.
Ranchers raise a wide variety of livestock depending on their ranch. A rancher would mostly raise cattle for beef as selling beef is profitable in the fast food industry.
Cattle ranchers are and always have raised (not "rise") cattle for beef, they've never began to raise cattle for products other than beef for any reason. Of course you may be referring to those ranchers who raise cattle to sell their cattle to other ranchers who need those type of cattle for their operations. Seedstock or purebred cattlemen still contribute to the beef industry, though, when they cull out cows, bulls, heifers and steered young bulls because they do not fit or are inferior to the type of stock they need to raise to sell to other seedstock producers or commercial producers.
They raise cattle or beef cattle
They raise cattle or beef cattle
There are several options as to the best beef cattle to raise in East Tennessee. You can choose Hereford cows, an Angus cross, or Holsteins.
Anything from beef producers, backgrounders, stockmen, to feedlot owners.
Ranches were and are the only places that a person can raise a large number of beef cattle on for income. One cannot raise cattle in cities or towns unless it's for a family and their need for milk.
In the 1850s, beef began to be more popular and its price rose making some cattle ranchers quite wealthy. Droughts in the later 1800's killed grass and in turn made less food for cattle and ranchers lost cows and money.
The name that is applied to meat that comes from a cattle that is over one year old is "beef."
A cattle farm, particularly one where beef cows are bred to raise beef calves intended for the supper table.
The longhorns were the only cattle available in America to be used for beef and to send East for beef and for a bit of income.
The new rail lines enabled the western cattle ranchers to get their beef to market in better condition (to gain a better price), sooner.