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Article: Study Debunks Myth Concerning Cattle Feedings in South Dakota.
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- American News (Aberdeen, SD)
- Article date:
- January 19, 2002
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Byline: Russ Keen
Jan. 19--Winters get too darn cold in South Dakota to justify feeding beef cattle all the way to market weight; so much of the food energy they consume is expended just to keep warm that they don't gain weight efficiently.
That's been the untested assumption throughout the century-plus that South Dakota has been a cattle state. And that's why most of its feeder calves, born in the spring, have been shipped south for the past 100 or so autumns as temperatures begin their annual downhill slide.
"There was a perception that it's too cold to feed in South Dakota," said Tonya Ness, executive director of the South Dakota ...