The COVID-19 pandemic put Oklahoma cattle producers in an unprecedented bind, making it difficult for them to get products to market.

Dr. Derrell Peel, an agricultural economist at Oklahoma State University, said the pandemic-related shutdowns were the initial problem, but then grew to a bottleneck effect of demand.

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