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SAN ANTONIO - The searing drought has forced members of the largest livestock association in Texas to reduce their herds by almost 40 percent, but it has not shaken their confidence in the future of the industry.

FORT WORTH - This week, rancher Donnell Brown will do something he never thought his family’s spread would consider.The 106-year-old R.A. Brown Ranch will ship hundreds of beefcows, bred heifers and bulls 1,300 miles to Montana.Like a latter-day version of the 19th-century cattle drives by Charles Goodnight and Jesse Chisholm, tens of thousands of dogies are moving north.

On this Ohio cattle farm, escaping the pasture is not just a challenge -- it’s a way of life.

Research has found that producers’ attitudes toward the beef checkoff program remain stable and are favorable.

Cattle and sheep herds are being culled or completely liquidated on West Texas ranches as drought and heat bake away vegetation on the rocky hills and once fertile valleys.

EPA Region 7 announced today that it has issued administrative compliance orders to six concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) in Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska, directing those operations to correct a range of violations of the federal Clean Water Act.

BRIAN WILLIAMS, anchor: Now we turn from politics to food prices, specifically a noticeable rise in prices. They’re way up in some cases, and the experts who watch these things say they’ll keep going up over the coming months as farmers struggle with bad weather and lousy harvests as a result. But is there any relief in sight?

Hay Hotline to offer hay pricing, listings for donated forage, transportation information and available grazing lands.

A record amount of corn was planted in Ohio this year, providing a sharp turnaround from a month ago when many farmers thought the entire season might get washed out by weeks of heavy rain.Some excellent weather in early June and increasingly advanced growing methods are credited with the change in fortunes.The amount of corn produced per acre isn’t expected to be at record levels because of the late start, but farmers and experts now think yields could at least be average.