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...Keyhole Reservoir in 1952, it acquired a large amount of land near eastern Wyoming's Belle Fourche River. Now the bureau proposes to sell off 280 acres, most of it in scattered parcels near, not directly abutting, the reservoir. Dry and covered with sagebrush, the land might interest cattlemen looking for grazing areas, especially if it can be acquired at a bargain price. Property in the area is currently fetching $125 to $225 per acre...
...report drew criticism from the National Cattlemen's Association, which labeled it "inconclusive and premature," and from the American Meat Institute, which said it was based on "insufficient evidence." Grobstein acknowledged that his panel was "exploring a relationship between two still largely unknowns," but he added: "I don't think we're disseminating unproven theories...
...wells in ten years, "we'll just go back to dry-land farming." To the farmers of the Great Plains, those words summon up visions of The Grapes of Wrath. Dry-land farming means larger farms with lower yields, fewer workers and probably higher prices in the supermarkets. Cattlemen know that less water means less corn and therefore smaller herds. Grubb calls such farming the "Russian roulette" of agriculture. Over a ten-year period, he says, dry-land farming will yield two strong harvests, four average ones and four "busts...
...scarred landscape on stripped-down motorcycles, killing for fuel, raping for fun, going to hell at 80 m.p.h. In a jerry-built fortress, the more admirable survivors have assembled an oil refinery-but, surrounded by the marauders, they cannot escape to use their precious petrol. Into this version of cattlemen vs. homesteaders rides a scurvy Shane: Max (Mel Gibson), once the leader of a vengeful highway patrol, now a misanthropic me-firster. For the technical challenge, Max makes an uneasy pact with the refiners. He will help them break through the cordon of marauders and speed them toward their image...
...plagues and bad weather overseas. Midwest cattle producers have no grudge against their counterparts in Denmark, but a recent outbreak of hoof-and-mouth disease there caused Japan to suspend $215 million worth of Danish meat imports. This could mean some $100 million in unexpected sales for American cattlemen. Says Ronald Knutson, an economist at Texas A&M: "If there is a major crop failure some place in the world, we'll look back on this as a good year." American farmers may be the "miracle workers of the Western world," as President Reagan proudly says, but now many...