Feeders stabilized the live cattle; with lower corn and rain forecasts helping the feeders.

I raise corn and cattle and soybeans. Soybeans are a good cash crop.

There is no meat. The cattle have been killed. They're only eating corn.

The cobs were delivered to a big pile. We were one of the first to feed corn cobs to cattle.

So this is what commodity corn can do to a cow: industrialize the miracle of nature that is a ruminant, taking this sunlight- and prairie grass-powered organism and turning it into the last thing we need: another fossil fuel machine. This one, however, is able to suffer.

I know I can do it," todd downy said, helping himself to another ear of corn from the steaming bowl. "I know in time her death will be a mystery, even to me