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Scarcities of milk and other dairy products could develop by August. Herrell DeGraff, president of the American Meat Institute, predicts that beef supplies could well grow leaner and costlier by early winter. Cattlemen are avoiding oppressive feed prices by letting their steers fatten on grass, a process that takes about 90 days longer than grain feeding...
Cross a cow with a buffalo and what do you get? Cowed and buffaloed, as frustrated cattlemen have found after many crossbreeding attempts over the past century. Instead of turning out as beefy as a black Angus and as large and hardy as a bison, the hybrid offspring were sickly and infertile. Now, a rancher in Stockton, Calif., has apparently hit on the right combination of bovines to produce a meaty, tasty, economical animal...
There are some 30,000 buffalo roaming in the U.S. these days, but instead of trying to emulate Basolo's combination, cattlemen will probably find it easier to start with the hybrids themselves. Basolo is offering vials of his male animals' superior sperm to any interested rancher. Price: $7 for enough to impregnate one conventional...
...southward migration of more than a million people is under way. Nomads are pouring into Ivory Coast and Ghana in a search for grazing lands. Their starving animals are poaching on cropland tended by subsistence farmers. The result has been a number of pitched battles, similar to those between cattlemen and sodbusters in America's Old West...
...somewhat baffled. They point out that on-the-hoof prices for pork, which is beginning the normal seasonal upswing in production, are easing just about on target. Yet prices for beef, which is also in a higher production period, are reacting entirely differently. The reason, apparently, is that cattlemen are convinced that demand-fueled by rising incomes, growing confidence in the economy and the food-stamp program, among other things-will increase further, driving prices above their already record levels. They are thus keeping unusually large numbers of steers in feed lots and on farms, waiting...