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HPPR Economy and Enterprise

Drought Drying Up High Plains Feedyards

High Plains Public Radio | By Cindee Talley

Published August 14, 2013 at 12:00 AM CDT

Crops aren’t the only things struggling to survive on the High Plains- area feedyards are too. Yards are reducing the number of cattle, up for sale, and some are closed. The Wall Street Journal provides a photo documentary.

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HPPR News

Drought in West Texas and Panhandle makes growing feed grain a challenge

Jill Ament and Caroline Covington | Texas Standard

The drought could drive up the price of beef. One agronomist explains why, and what farmers might do to adapt.
HPPR News

Kansas researchers find that feeding hemp to cattle mellows the herd

Suzanne Perez

Researchers at Kansas State University said hemp could be a natural way to decrease stress-related respiratory infections and other ailments when cattle are being transported or weaned off their mothers.
HPPR News

Swapping Grass For Grasshoppers? This Researcher Wants Bugs To Be On The Menu For Livestock Feed.

Caroline Covington

A Texas A&M University entomologist says insects can be much more efficient and environmentally friendly sources of food for livestock than traditional feed.
HPPR Environment

Lawmakers Block Requirement To Report Toxic Emissions From Manure

Mose Buchele

If you’ve spent your life in the city, maybe you’ve never experienced the smell near a dairy farm, cattle feedlot or a newly fertilized field.
HPPR Environment

Environmental groups want feeding operations to report emissions

Environmentalists, the EPA, and farm groups continue to battle over a whether animal farms should be exempted from reporting emissions to the federal…