As Beef Industry Deals With Drought, Researchers Eye Less-Thirsty Cattle
LOGAN LAYDEN
KGOU
The ongoing drought in Oklahoma affects everyone in the country. Well, everyone who likes to eat beef, that is. Beef and veal prices will have risen by about 11.5 percent in 2014, and, as Reuters reports, “will increase significantly again in 2015″ because of drought in the Southern Plains.