61.   Rising feed costs reduce profits for fattening animals for slaughter, with nine pounds of feed needed to add one pound of market weight.

62.   Rising feed costs probably will reduce demand for feeder cattle because it reduces the profitability of raising young animals to market weight.

63.   Rising feed costs probably will reduce demand for feeder cattle because it reduces the profitability of raising young animals to market-weight.

64.   Slaughter rates, which suffered after soaring feed costs forced many producers to thin their herds last year, now are rebounding.

65.   Surging feed costs during the first half of the year forced ranchers to reduce their herds, depressing prices.

66.   That indicates that hog farmers, who sold off their herds last year because of high feed costs, have begun to build them back up again.

67.   That impact would come primarily from the effect of higher feed costs on poultry, pigs and beef.

68.   Swift should be able to grow profits faster once it raises prices and a corn shortage that has sent feed costs rising subsides, analysts said.

69.   The company said feed costs, which reached record highs this year, have already started to fall.

70.   The drop in corn boosted feeder cattle prices for the fourth straight day, as lower feed costs mean ranchers will spend more time fattening their animals.