 Range Problems in the Missouri OzarksS. Clark Martin No 404840, USDA Miscellaneous from United States Department of Agriculture Abstract: The purpose of this analysis is to describe the major problems associated with range livestock production in the Missouri Ozark Region and to outline a program of range research to solve those problems. To a large degree the major problem of the Ozark range user is low income. But, most of Missouri's ranges are also forests. So when the range stockman tries to increase his income by such practices as burning and goating he crosses swords with the conservationist and especially with the forester. The overall objectives of this range research program are to help the farmer increase his income and to help resolve this land-use controversy. In January, 1955, there were more than 1,000,000 cattle and 400,000 hogs on about 75,000 farms within the 39-county area shown in figure 1. In this 17-million-acre Ozark Region the average farmer has only 13 cattle and 6 hogs but 87 percent of the total value of reported farm sales is from livestock and livestock products. Part of this livestock income is derived from "range” livestock operations. Keywords: Farm Management; Land Economics/Use; Livestock Production/Industries; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies; Resource/Energy Economics and Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ags:usdami:404840 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in USDA Miscellaneous from United States Department of Agriculture |
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