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America's Big Beef
7:36 pm
Wed December 12, 2012

Beef Feedlots Grapple With Endless Waste

Credit Jeremy Bernfeld / Harvest Public Media
Allan Sents co-owns McPherson County Feeders, a beef feedlot in central Kansas, with his wife Deanna. His 11,000 cattle produce a lot of waste.

You think you deal with a lot of bull crap? Allan Sents needs a front-end loader and a dump truck to deal with all the cattle manure he’s up against. Literally.

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America's Big Beef
5:12 pm
Tue December 11, 2012

Judging A Cow By More Than Its Cover

Credit Frank Morris / Harvest Public Media
Owner Rhett Lowderman and his team gather around his prize-winning Hereford, LCC Patton Kiwi 116 ET, which won the Reserve Grand and Champion Intermediate Female Award at the American Royal.

Backstage behind the cattle pens at the giant livestock show at the American Royal in Kansas City, Mo., “cow fitter” Maddee Moore was awash in glamour goods.

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America's Big Beef
2:15 pm
Tue December 11, 2012

Public Research For Private Interests

Credit Peggy Lowe / Harvest Public Media
Dr. Dan Thomson, a Kansas State veterinary professor and director of the Beef Cattle Institute, holds a "Beef Quality Assurance" training at the Beef Fest in Emporia, Kan., in August.

Agricultural colleges in the top five beef-producing states have become quasi-arms of the cattle industry, selling science to corporate bidders who set the research agenda with their dollars.

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Up to Date
10:03 am
Mon December 10, 2012

America's Big Beef

Credit Thomas Bjørkan
Cow carcasses

Just how much influence does Big Beef have in Cowtown?

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Harvest Public Media
1:01 pm
Sun December 9, 2012

Newspaper Series Faults Big Beef

Workers trim beef at the Tyson Fresh Meats plant in Dakota City, Neb. The plant employs about 4,000 people.
Credit Keith Myers / The Kansas City Star
Workers trim beef at the Tyson Fresh Meats plant in Dakota City, Neb.

What should you know about the beef on your table? The Kansas City Star answered that question with a three-part series on the beef industry.

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Agriculture
2:35 pm
Fri December 7, 2012

New Reporting Series Covers 'America's Big Beef'

On Monday, Harvest Public Media launches a five-part series called "America’s Big Beef: An Industry in Transition." It's a deep dive into the big business of cattle.

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