| Summary: | Beef cattle production in Eastern Canada has changed considerably in the last twenty years. Prior to that, it was believed that beef could be produced economically only on cheap marginal land under a rather extensive system of farming. Since then, such factors as scarcity of farm labour, tendency towards specialization and good markets have influenced the production of beef cattle on the more fertile and extensively cultivated land. In this way, they are regarded as economical converters of unsaleable and bulky crops, as restorers of organic matter and fertility to the soil and as a means of utilizing more efficiently and economically available farm labour throughout the year.
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