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Drought Drying Up High Plains Feedyards

By Cindee Talley
Published August 14, 2013 at 12:00 AM CDT
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  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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