Help our wildlife, plz donate to NWA, P.O. Box 4049, Incline Village, Nv 89450
News

University of Wyoming analysis proves the economic irrelevance of public-land livestock grazing

University of Wyoming analysis proves the economic irrelevance of public-land livestock grazing

Opinion

A series of University of Wyoming economic analyses (funded by the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association) to determine the economic impacts of eliminating federal grazing found that public land ranching isn’t just insignificant in local western economies, but its economic contribution is entirely inconsequential. The small economic contribution of public-lands cattle and sheep in the arid West is dwarfed by cattle production in the lush pastures of the East and Midwest. And, of course, there’s a good reason for this: The vast majority of cattle in the United States are pastured in states with ample rainfall and productive pastures, not in the arid West which is wracked by drought more often than not.

Read More…

Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , ,