# Friona Ind. Buys Two Cattle Empire Feedyards

> Cattle Empire sold two feedyards with a combined one-time capacity of 139,000 head in Haskell County, Kansas, to Friona Industries. The purchase lifts Friona to the second-largest cattle feeding company in the US with 577,000 head of capacity. Cattle Empire keeps a smaller yard for customer cattle.

- Date: 2020-11-13 · published 2020-11-13T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: market · region US · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/50119-friona-ind-buys-two-cattle-empire-feedyards
- Commodities: [Live Cattle](https://feedsoft.ai/c/LCATTLE.md)

## Why it matters

Consolidation of feeding capacity into large operators can shift cattle purchasing and marketing power, but the transaction itself does not change near-term supply or prices.

## Read by commodity

- LCATTLE: neutral

## Sources

- drovers.com: https://www.drovers.com/markets/friona-ind-buys-two-cattle-empire-feedyards

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