09/11/2026
Texas doesn’t just lead the country in beef cattle. It leads by an almost unbelievable margin.
🐂 Texas: 4,045,000 beef cows
🐂 Oklahoma: 1,966,000
🐂 Missouri: 1,806,000
Oklahoma and Missouri are ranked second and third in the nation. Combine them, and they have 3,772,000 beef cows.
Texas still has 273,000 more.
Only seven states have more than one million beef cows, and Texas has more than four million by itself.
That is the scale of Texas agriculture. Ranching here isn’t simply part of our history. It remains a massive part of our land, economy, and way of life.
Everything really is bigger in Texas, including the herd.