The paper presents the number and production status of beef cattle in the Republic of Croatia. The number of cattle in Croatia is falling every year, with the import of calves used in fattening growing. In Croatia, the Simmental breed predominates the most, combining it and giving good production results in fattening. Of the meat breeds, Angusa, Charolais and Hereford have the most, and in addition, more and more Charolais, Limousin and Salers cattle are imported, which are kept on an extensive cow-calf system where they stay on pasture all the time. Furthermore, the paper analyzes feeding experiments in cattle fattening conducted differently, depending on the method of keeping cattle, breed and production intensity, and it can be concluded that feeding cattle in Croatian fattening is carried out in a similar way because corn is mostly used as a main component. in different forms (silage, grain). The advantages of our farmers and fattening cattle in Croatia is that we produce very high quality cattle that are in demand on the foreign market. Our medium-sized farms produce their own feed mixtures and formulate meals that contain mostly corn, making the entire meal contain a higher concentration of energy. Excess energy in the meal is converted into fat and with the achieved slaughter masses of cattle contains higher amounts of fat, especially heifers, which are in high demand in some countries (Italy) and older fattening cattle (Lebanon).