Word: greeleys
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...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...
...priest. Andrew Greeley, suffers because his cardinal-archbishop does not seem to care about him. All of us would benefit if Cody and Greeley could "throw down their arms...
ANDREW M. GREELEY...