"Cattle feeding is a big business in Missouri, but it has potential for becoming much bigger. This report gives information farmers need to help decide whether to enter or expand in this business. First, however, here is a brief sketch...

of the number of cattle fed dropped from 60 percent to 47 percent. While at the same time the proportion accounted for by the southern plains and the western states advanced from 18 percent to 33 percent. 3. A shift in the structure in the industry from...

Water has become a scarce resource in some areas of the United States in the past decade. Allocation of scarce water between competing uses is a relatively new problem in these areas, but, the problem is not new to residents ...