North To Nebraska: Noted consulting nutritionist Kenneth Eng is gambling on several hundred pairs of Texas drought cattle moved to semi-confinement in Nebraska

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Drought and high temperatures in the Southern Plains have combined to literally bake the forage and a passel of cattle right off the land in that important part of cattle country. By some predictions, a year-to-year decline in cow numbers of as much as 12-13% is forecast for both Texas and Oklahoma come Jan. 1, 2012."Many of those cattle liquidated due to drought went to slaughter, but quite a few moved, mostly north," says Jim Robb of the Livestock Marketing Information Center in Denver. "The veterinary inspection data seems to support that some cattle have moved from the drought area north to Nebraska and South Dakota, with a very limited number moving north of South Dakota. Some also have gone to Colorado."