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Problems with Range Cattle Production

North Dakota Experiment Station

Abstract

The basis for this paper is a study of a group of 60 cattle ranches located in the Great Plains region where the two Dakotas, Wyoming and Montana corner up.

It has been a cooperative project undertaken by the experiment stations of the four states working with the United States Department of Agriculture. Fifteen ranches are located in each of the four states. It is a country of magnificient distances and it required about 2,000 miles of automobile travel to make a single visit to each of the 60 outfits.

The chief business of each operator is the production of threeand four-year-old market beef cattle, although surprising sidelines of income were found in the group.

Operators Had Varied Sidelines

One cooperator had considerable of plow land adjacent to graz- ing land and added markedly to his income by dry land wheat and flax culture.

Another grew enough corn, "cattled off," to warm up his grass- fat steers and thus edge them past the grass-fat run of cattle on the market.