It is a mixed farm, with arable crops and a 40-strong herd of beef cattle.
Mr Bailey has cut back the number of beef cattle he finishes (rears to slaughter) each year by almost three-quarters.
It began back in 1966, when Colorado-born mine magnate Courtland Parfet bought the ranch, an area of grassland mainly for grazing beef cattle.
An analagous process is boosting the productivity of Brazil's beef cattle herd.
The future for American beef cattle is smaller, thinner, fewer.
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The road rises, dips, twists, and turns along the eastern shore as it passes the occasional house, amid small herds of dairy and beef cattle behind barbed wire fences.
The majority of beef cattle in the U.S. are raised on grass on family-owned ranches before they are sent to feedlots for fattening and then on to the slaughterhouse for processing.
After beef cattle have grazed on pasture land for a year or two, they are usually sent to feed-lots, where they are fattened on a diet of hay and corn to prepare for slaughter.
Mr Fidler, who farms a herd of Sussex beef cattle on 250 acres of land in the village of Salfords, has been fighting Reigate and Banstead original council's enforcement notices, requiring the home to be torn down, since 2008.
"When I was a kid in the '50s ... it got real dry, but nothing like this, " said Marvin Helms, a 70-year-old farmer and rancher in central Arkansas who was compelled to sell his beef cattle after being short on feed.
At the moment, the South Koreans do not, due to Mad Cow concerns, allow the importation of beef from cattle 30 months or older.
The EU has still failed to lift a ban, declared illegal by the WTO six years ago, on American and Canadian beef from cattle treated with growth hormones.
It was probably acquired by the consumption of beef infected with the cattle disease.
The lifting means that live animals born after 1 August, 1996, beef and beef products made from cattle slaughtered after 15 June 2005 will be able to be exported.
Beef shipments were banned after cattle were found to have eaten contaminated rice straw.
Beef exports have also been limited, which caused ranchers to stop raising cattle and led to lower leather output and beef consumption.
Northern Beef Chief Executive David Palmer said cattle producers within 200 miles of the new plant ship one million young cattle a year, or half their new calves, to the south for fattening and processing.
This threatens beef exports: European Union rules bar mixing cattle with beasts that may have foot-and-mouth disease.
In a statement issued to CNN in 2006, the USDA said it does not support 100% testing because the disease is difficult to detect in young cattle, the primary source of beef in the United States.
He lost money on a cattle-ranching operation to produce low-fat beef, for instance.
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The stronger Brazilian real in relation to the dollar has made Brazilian beef a little less competitive overseas and U.S. cattle country is one of its benefactors of that exchange rate.
Once again, beef appears to be the weakest unit, as a reduction in feed cattle supplies hits input costs.
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Argentina has one of the highest consumptions of beef in the world, and the owner of The Argentine Experience, Englishman Leon Lightman, travelled for six months through the country, visiting cattle ranches to find the best sources of grass-fed beef.
Ranchers began herding their cattle to railroads in the East to meet the increasing demand for beef.
As a cattle farmer in a meat-loving region where demand for prime beef is rising, she should know.
All cattle over 30 months are required to be proven BSE-free before the beef can be sold.
While the border remains closed to live cattle, it was reopened in August 2003 for trade in boxed, boneless beef.
If it is top-notch, no one would be surprised to hear that the beef comes from the Argentine Pampas, a grassy flatland that provides optimal conditions for raising cattle.
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The company blamed media coverage of the hoof-and-mouth disease plaguing European cattle farmers for part of the decline, coupled with a surplus of both beef and pork for a decline in exports to Japan and South Korea, where it had strong sales last year.
While the price of cattle fell 50% between May and July 2003, the average retail price of beef fell only 14%.
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