11.   Agriculture officials are predicting significant reductions in corn and wheat crops, as well as increased cost of raising cattle as ranchers buy supplemental feed.

12.   But raising cattle is the prime legitimate business.

13.   Cattle are raised for slaughter, sheep for the shears.

14.   Clifton and her husband lived in Africa for many years, raising Black Angus cattle.

15.   Conservancy managers say they should be able to use the land to protect fish instead of raising cattle.

16.   Consumers had no reliable way to distinguish quality beef, and the market had no way to reward ranchers who raised better cattle.

17.   During the winter, some ranchers and stockers raise cattle on winter wheat, but most young animals are raised in feedlots during the winter.

18.   Environmental concerns about aquaculture may seem picayune when compared to those about raising cattle, which have been blamed for everything from the destruction of rain forests to famine.

19.   Entrepreneurs followed and were bowed by the amount of effort it required to raise cattle or extract lumber, limestone and tanbark from the coastal slopes and clefts.

20.   Feeder cattle are raised on a diet of mostly corn for about four months until they are ready to be sold for slaughter.