Where's the beef?
01-03-2008
Corn biofuels craze drives changes in conventional cattle farming, affecting everything from prices for grain and shift to distillers' grain for feed, to pasture movement from Texas area to Northern Plains, to decline in profits and competition from pork at the supermarket.
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