you know nothing about the beef industry you must be in a big city and never lived on a farm or ranch You never fed livestock and sure don't know those markets Droughts do cause ranchers to reduce heard size If you don't have feed you can't raise the beef. Most cattle feederrs in the midwest buy feedeer cattle from Western ranchers. Yes some of us do have small heards to raise from birth to finish. But if our crops reduce we csut back on what we keep to feed.