Author: Charles L. Wood
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700631798
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
This book relates the modern development of the Kansas beef cattle industry, combining both the history of production—including specific business problems and the significant work in upbreeding—and an examination of the marketing aspects of the industry that became so important during the twentieth century. Sharpest focus is on the period 1890 to 1940, after the Western beef industry had passed through the transition from using the expansive, open-range method of beef production to the more rational and organized methods of today. Wood presents a detailed discussion of the history of upbreeding. He points out the little-known fact that the fine-blooded animals—especially Herefords—that moved out from the Midwest were probably more important in stocking the ranges of the Plains and the Southwest than the many thousands of Longhorns driven from Texas. He emphasizes the interregional aspect of beef production and the unique role played by Kansas. On the threshold of the Great Plains, Kansas received cattle from both the Midwest and the Southwest for many years—upbred cattle moving South, and stocker cattle moving from the South or Southwest into Kansas for additional maturing before being shipped to the Midwest for fattening or for slaughter. Wood also looks closely at the relationship of cattlemen to government and to big business—railroads, stockyards, and packers. He sees the cattlemen as agricultural producers and business managers, rather than as romantic, self-reliant giants of the earth. Taking issue with the popular myth that cattlemen were and are ruggedly individualistic and disdainful of outside help, Wood discusses the cattlemen’s repeated demands for aid, especially during the 1930s. Included in the book is the history of the Kansas Livestock Association, which the author credits as being one of the most significant stock associations in the West during this century. Wood sets the KLA’s growth within the context of the larger organizational revolution in the nation’s business world. A concluding chapter surveys major developments after World War II, including the development of feedlots and irrigation, the new cross-breeding, decentralization of packers, and the advent of trucking to replace railroads. There has been scant information on these topics in the general literature of the Great Plains.
The Kansas Beef Industry
The Kansas Beef Industry
Author: Charles L. Wood
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
This book relates the modern development of the Kansas beef cattle industry, combining both the history of production--including specific business problems and the significant work in upbreeding--and an examination of the marketing aspects of the industry that became so important during the twentieth century. Sharpest focus is on the period 1890 to 1940, after the Western beef industry had passed through the transition from using the expansive, openrange method of beef production to the more rational and organized methods of today.
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
This book relates the modern development of the Kansas beef cattle industry, combining both the history of production--including specific business problems and the significant work in upbreeding--and an examination of the marketing aspects of the industry that became so important during the twentieth century. Sharpest focus is on the period 1890 to 1940, after the Western beef industry had passed through the transition from using the expansive, openrange method of beef production to the more rational and organized methods of today.
Kansas Beef Industry
Author: Kevin C. Dhuyvetter
Publisher:
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Category : Beef industry
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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Publisher:
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Category : Beef industry
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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Cattlemen, Big Business, and Government
Author: Charles L. Wood
Publisher:
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Category : Beef cattle
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Beef cattle
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Beef Cattle in Kansas
Author: Kansas. State Board of Agriculture
Publisher:
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Category : Beef cattle
Languages : en
Pages : 289
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Publisher:
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Category : Beef cattle
Languages : en
Pages : 289
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Kansas Beef Industry
The Beef Industry
Author: John Peirce
Publisher: Sunstone Press
ISBN: 1611394082
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Whether or not you are a beef consumer, are you satisfied that you know all you should about this product? Usual sources of information might, to a very large degree, not give adequate information about beef. Some of these sources might be biased—either f
Publisher: Sunstone Press
ISBN: 1611394082
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Whether or not you are a beef consumer, are you satisfied that you know all you should about this product? Usual sources of information might, to a very large degree, not give adequate information about beef. Some of these sources might be biased—either f
Impacts of Proposed Inventory Tax on Kansas Cattle and Hog Industries
Author: Ted Conrad Schroeder
Publisher:
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Category : Cattle trade
Languages : en
Pages : 38
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Category : Cattle trade
Languages : en
Pages : 38
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Trends in Livestock and Meat Industry in Kansas
Author: C. P. Wilson
Publisher:
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Category : Animal industry
Languages : en
Pages : 46
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Publisher:
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Category : Animal industry
Languages : en
Pages : 46
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Kansas Beef Cattle Improvement Program
Author: Herman W. Westmeyer
Publisher:
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Category : Beef cattle
Languages : en
Pages : 5
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Beef cattle
Languages : en
Pages : 5
Book Description