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Wall Street Journal: A severe drought in the southern Great Plains is fueling a massive cattle drive north that is pushing beef prices higher and threatening to alter the country's production of red meat.
Surrounded by parched prairies and dry watering holes, ranchers in Texas and Oklahoma have deeply culled their herds and helped cut the national cattle population to the lowest level in decades. They have found greener pastures in states such as Iowa and Nebraska, but land there is more valuable for corn than cattle,......
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Where’s the Beef? Less of It in Texas
Posted by Wall Street Journal: Mark Peters and Marshall Eckblad on February 11th, 2012
Posted in Water Conservation