mini-cows

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With climate change, drought, and crowding, the face of cattle ranching is changing. * In the past, enormous grasslands were dominated by gigantic herds of cattle weighing in at a ton each gobbling down tons of grass. Or the darker view of cattle raising, we see those one ton cattle in pens being fattened up for slaughter on corn diets. * Slowly, that view of cattle is changing. How? The size of the plots of land are shrinking. The plots of land are shrinking from 40 acres to perhaps four acres. The cattle don't mind. Why? They are shrinking too. The shrinking is not through a ray gun though, it is through selective breeding. These are mini-cows. They weigh perhaps 500 pounds each. Their calves are tiny enough to sit on your lap. They are not dwarfs, they are simply mini forms of the same breeds of their larger kin. * Mini-cows are a more economical option for ranching as they've relatively dainty appetites which are ideal for grass feeding on small plots. If you can get mother nature to feed your cattle most of the time, that saves money on the outset. They produce more sirloin and less soup bone. Some are comparatively good milkers.