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...drought is likely to send meat prices down at first, then higher next year. Many ranchers cannot afford the corn and soybean meal to feed their herds. At the same time, much of the pastureland their cows normally graze has been scorched. As a result, ranchers are slaughtering many more of their cattle than usual. As the meat comes to market, retail prices for beef and pork should decline for the next few months. But by next spring the herds will be reduced, and prices are likely to increase as much as 10% from their current levels. The calf herd...
...Already commodity prices have soared. Corn and soybeans are at a two-year high. Livestock, with nowhere to graze and no water to drink, are being sent to slaughter early. The sudden glut of meat on the market has caused hog prices to fall 10% in the past three weeks and feeder-cattle prices to plunge 9% in five weeks; even so, consumers will soon face higher food costs...
...staunchly evergreen neighbors watched in amazement as she planted clover and rye grass, let it grow a foot high, then plowed it under. Raised vegetable beds and fruit trees began to appear. Then local children gathered, holding tricycle races on the sawdust paths. "They all come over to graze," she laughs. "I have to grow twice as many strawberries and raspberries as I need...
Those who cannot make up their minds whether to gaze or graze in their gardens can always grow edible flowers. Trendy cooks now sprinkle salads with nasturtiums, lavender petals and rose petals or make cold soup out of violets and scented geraniums. Those who experiment with gourmet gardening, cautions Rosalind Creasy, author of The Complete Book of Edible Landscaping, should take care not to sample every blossom: lily of the valley and foxglove, for example, are poisonous. As for certain marigolds, they taste "like skunk," and some carnations "metallic." "I don't care if it's edible...
...design for a $24 million California State Polytechnic University Pomona project to the competition jury, for instance, he included floor-by-floor maps of the buildings' interior ambience -- a singular synthesis of engineering and intuition. On a low-rise roof at Pomona, he wants to plant grass and graze sheep. "They think I'm kidding," says Predock. He is smiling, but he isn't kidding...