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The land is near desert so they run 1 head of cattle per sq mile. Most farms are in richer land and are mostly wheat (and canola etc)/sheep with some cattle.
Cattle spend just the end of their lives on feeding lots. They are born and live in paddocks.
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"Wesley Vogel" <123WVogel955@comcast.net> wrote in message news:%23%23tQfLIkFHA.948@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Sheesh, David, you sound like a Texan.
>
> It isn't the size, in area, it's the size, in number of cattle.
>
> They need that much land just to graze 18,000 head of cattle.
>
> [[Presently, Anna Creek Station is carrying 13,000 head of cattle due to the
> drought back in 1999. Heavy recent rains over the Outback of South Australia
> has meant that they can now restock the station with up to 18,000 head. The
> rains have brought additional feed for the cattle.]]
> From...
> Anna Creek Station
>
http://www.wrightsair.com.au/anna.htm
>
> Most cattle in the US are fed corn flakes (they are easier to digest than
> regular field corn), hay, molasses and other feed supplements. Very few
> cattle in the US are left to graze on the open range any more.
>
> The present day Swift & Company (Headquartered here in Greeley) evolved out
> of Monfort of Colorado; Monfort, Inc and ConAgra Beef Co. Monfort of
> Colorado had three cattle feedlots with a one time capacity of about 320,000
> head. All three feedlots are in Colorado. Two of them right here in Weld
> County. I have done work at all three: Gilcrest, Kersey and Yuma. We built
> the Yuma feedlot from scratch in 1987. All the cattle pens, veterinary
> hospital facilities, grain handling facilities, corn flaker mill building
> (Monfort made more corn flakes than Kellogg's), batch plant, boiler house
> (steam is needed to partially cook the corn kernels), computer feed batching
> tower/office building, etc.
>
> Smithfield Foods bought the cattle feeding operation from Con-Agra (MF
> Cattle Feeding, Inc) and has since formed a joint venture with ContiBeef LLC
> to form Five Rivers Ranch Cattle Feeding LLC.
>
> [[...Swift & Company the second-largest processor of both beef and pork in
> the world, and the leading Australian beef processor. ]]
> From...
>
http://www.swiftbrands.com/about/ownership.php
>
> [[We’re also the largest beef industry employers in Australia with four
> processing plants.]]
> From...
>
http://www.swiftbrands.com/careers/index.php
>
> [[Australian Beef Processing Plants
> Beef City
> Dinmore
> Rockhampton
> Townsville
>
> Australian Cattle Feedlots
> Beef City
> Caroona
> Mungindi
> Prime City ]]
> From...
> Swift & Company - Swift at a Glance
>
http://www.swiftbrands.com/about/at_glance.php
>
> [[Five Rivers has a one-time feeding capacity of 811,000 head, making it the
> largest cattle feeding company in the country.]]
> From...
> ContiGroup, Smithfield complete joint venture
>
http://www.greeleytrib.com/article/20050524/BUSINESS/105240046
>
> [[Five Rivers Ranch Cattle Feeding LLC is the largest cattle feeding
> operations in the world, marketing over one million head annually, most of
> which are company owned.]]
> From...
>
http://www.fiveriverscattle.com/About.htm
>
>
> ConAgra Foods Sells Cattle Feedlots to Smithfield
>
http://www.mycattle.com/news/dsp_topstories_article.cfm?storyid=15637
>
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> Hope this helps. Let us know.
>
> Wes
> MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
>
> In news:OPgDS49jFHA.3568@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl,
> David Candy <.> hunted and pecked:
>> Texans wouldn't know cattle if they fell over one with their tinney,
>> weenie farms. In Australia cattle stations are bigger than european
>> countries.
>>
>> a.. Anna Creek Station is well known as the largest cattle station in the
>> world, covering an area of 34,000 sq. kms (6 million acres). It is still
>> 8,000 sq. kms larger than its nearest rival in the N.T. of Australia,
>> Alexandria Station. The largest American cattle station “ranch†is
>> 3,000 sq. kms.
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>> "chrisg1990" <chrisg1990@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:A9E41E14-B4C1-4085-B644-7B23843AF8DC@microsoft.com...
>>> I like the name vista and the slogon for it "Bringing clarity to your
>>> world." the longhorn name was ok but it also sounded to munch like
>>> cattle in Texis.
>>>
>>> "Kyle Holgate" wrote:
>>>
>>>> Personally I think they could have come up with a better name for it
>>>> though. Vista just doesn't have the punch that Long Horn does =)
>>>>
>>>> Kyle Holgate
>>>>
>>>> "Paul Smith" wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> It's official goodbye Longhorn. Hello Windows Vista.
>>>>>
>>>>> Press release:
>>>>>
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005/jul05/07-22LHMA.mspx
>>>>>
>>>>> Video:
http://www.microsoft.com/winme/0507/25234/Win_Name_MBR.asx
>>>>>
>>>>> Product page
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/default.mspx
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
http://blogs.dasmirnov.net/paul/2005/07/22/goodbye_longhorn
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Paul Smith,
>>>>> Yeovil, UK.
>>>>> http://www.windowsresource.net/
>>>>>
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