Abstract:Beef cattle industry has been constrained by the agricultural development for a long time.After the reform and opening up,the government loosened its hold on the cattle industry,which makes the beef cattle industry get rapid development.Since the founding of new China,beef cattle industry could be divided into three periods: preliminary period,traditional and modern periods.The beef cattle industry also goes through draft cattle,workingmeat and meat orientation processes.Based on the influence of agricultural mechanization substitution on beef cattle industry,this paper analyzes the influence of agricultural mechanization on beef cattle production by using panel VAR model.The result shows that the influences of agricultural machinization on the beef cattle production are very obvious.The influence of agricultural mechanization on the beef cattle production during the period of tradition and transition was much larger than that during the modern period.Nonmajor grain producing area is slightly affected than the major grain producing area,while the duration is relatively short.