What is beef cattle raising?

Beef cattle raising is just a play of Words for a job of raising beef cattle. Raising beef cattle often involves breeding beef cows to a bull to produce calves that are sold for the meat market. However raising beef cattle also involves raising purebreds to sell to other producers; stocker/backgrounding operation which "raise" weanling calves from weaning age to adequate age and weight to start finishing; and "raising" steers or finishing cattle to slaughter.