Delayed impact Cattle and dairy farmers have no hay or forage to take cows through the winter. Immediate Impact Grass in pasture and hayfields quit growing, leaving cows without food and farmers nothing to store for the winter. Cattle farmers either lose money importing expensive hay and feed over the winter or sell off their herd. Because of high prices, the number of acres planted in wheat this year is about four times what it was last year, Griffith said. Those who have sold their...

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Despite their generosity, Cubans remain anxious about food, especially those who remember the "Special Period" wartime-like austerity measures imposed in the early 1990s after the Soviet Union collapsed and the island's gross domestic product plunged by 35 percent. I spent less than $17 for a month's sustenance, dropped nine pounds and learned like Cubans to budget carefully, plan meals ahead, buy only what was necessary and never throw food away. HAVANA No one on this communist-run island...

The survey found that in 2006 ethanol co-products were feed to livestock at 38 percent of dairy operations, 36 percent of cattle-on-feed operations, 13 percent of beef cattle operations and 12 percent of hog operations. Corn gluten feed was used by 46 percent of beef cow operations and 38 percent of cattle on feed operations. Most purchased from feed companies or co-ops but many cattle-on-feed operations bought directly from ethanol and other processing plants. The material on this site...

No one type of woman set out on the trails: some went by choice, some by force; some went to make money, some to gaze at the stars, and some just went to work the cattle. But if the saying is true Behind every successful man there is a good woman that cowboy might have to take a step or two back because lots of women contributed to what we think of ranching and cattle raising. These women did more than cook dinner and ring the triangle at mealtimes; they rolled up their sleeves and...