1.   The impact of drought-damaged crops and low beef prices could mean a severe impact in many small towns.

2.   Also, some traders anticipate that higher retail beef prices will send some consumers to other meats.

3.   Although analysts do not expect serious economic damage beyond the next few days, cattle sales came to a virtual halt this week and beef prices soared.

4.   As a trustee of the telephone company co-op, Murnion is trying to attract entrepreneurs wed to laptops instead of beef prices.

5.   As in much of Europe, beef prices have plummeted in Italy.

6.   Beef prices advanced because meatpackers earlier this week sold out their inventory, reducing supplies available to the market, analysts said.

7.   Beef prices dropped, and Lyman and Winfrey were sued by Texas cattlemen.

8.   Beef prices advanced last week as supermarkets and other wholesale buyers secured supplies.

9.   Beef prices could have increased as the Hudson Foods recall, the largest in history, removed supplies from the pipeline, analysts said.

10.   Beef prices will come down as a result of forced liquidation of herds, he said.