date:Jan 31, 2013
the relatively poor condition of the current hard red winter wheat crop in the High Plains. Typically, he said, cattle from the Southeast United States are shipped to Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas to graze on the gestating wheat before the animals reach sufficient size to move into feedlots.
A lot of animals have not been transported this year because of the lack of growth in the wheat crop, he said.
Still another likely impediment to building the domestic supply of hay, Mr. Brooks said, was the