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And what if your business is not network equipment or auctioning off cattle feed on the Web?
FORBES: A Year for Sizzle
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"When I was a kid in the '50s ... it got real dry, but nothing like this, " said Marvin Helms, a 70-year-old farmer and rancher in central Arkansas who was compelled to sell his beef cattle after being short on feed.
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Ranchers had planned on using the grass to feed cattle... and the fires also destroyed miles of fences that keep the cattle in.
NPR: Fires Scorch Nebraska Cattle Industry
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He also called for more inspections of cattle at the slaughterhouse and to ensure that the 1997 feed ban on ground bone meal is not being violated.
CNN: Democrats criticize administration over mad cow
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After beef cattle have grazed on pasture land for a year or two, they are usually sent to feed-lots, where they are fattened on a diet of hay and corn to prepare for slaughter.
ECONOMIST: Branding in the west