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Ranchers Battle Meatpacking Industry

Associated Press article
Saturday August 25, 2007 4:00 AM EDT

MOVILLE, Iowa (AP) - Eric Nelson, a fourth-generation rancher and farmer who operates a feedlot, isn't looking for more government cash. He just wants a little help from the Senate when it debates a farm bill this fall.

Nelson and many other family ranchers in the Midwest and West are hoping Congress can help them fight the gradual consolidation of the meat industry, which they say is hurting their business. >>>Full Story



Cattle Theft in the Heartland

Source: ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
01/29/2006
Article written by: Phillip O'Connor

CATTLE RUSTLERS TARGET OZARKS REGION




Bob Herndon of Marionville, Mo.,
tends to his cattle Friday. Last
October 16, 2005, cattle rustlers
stole 25 black calves, an $18,000
loss. More than twenty five
counties in Southwest Missouri
have been hit by cattle rustlers. (Laurie Skrivan/P-D)


BARRY COUNTY, MO.

They crowded more than 100 strong into a small country store in the heart of Missouri's beef country, many angry and a few grumbling about meteing out some frontier justice.

They were farmers and ranchers tired of losing a modern-day fight against an old-time crime - cattle rustling.

Cattle theft is on the rise in America, fueled, in part, by soaring beef prices. In Missouri, thieves have targeted a large swath of the Ozarks region.

>>>Full Story
















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