Word: greeleys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Your story about the residents of Leisure Village who built a fence around their community [March 11] reminds me of how Greeley, Colo., built a fence around the city in 1871. It was built to protect the city gardens and crops from the livestock of neighbors and farmers outside, and it was necessary for the Colorado legislature to act favorably before the townspeople were allowed to close the gates to the new city at night. The fence lasted until 1874, when it was sold...
...Greeley, Colo...
...calves that go on feed this month it will be about 50? per lb. This surge results mainly from zooming prices for corn, the main ingredient in a feeder steer's diet. But packers last week were paying only 41? a lb. for the fattened steers. In Greeley, Colo., one of the nation's feed-lot centers (see box), some operators were taking losses of $100 or more on each steer sold...
...Greeley, Colo., has a population of 43,000 human beings and several hundred thousand head of beef cattle. The cattle can be found in hundreds of feeder pens within miles of the city's center, drinking, snoozing and, most important, eating. In the most modern of these operations, the food is blended by highly sophisticated, computerized feed mills. Last week TIME Los Angeles Bureau Chief Richard L. Duncan visited Greeley and sent this report on the sights, sounds and smells of a thoroughly streamlined feed-lot operation...
...stable techniques copied from the assembly line. "If we do things a little bit better than the others," says Farr, "when we lose money, we'll lose less. And when we make it, we'll make a little more." Henry Ford would have felt at home in Greeley...