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By Alice Daniel<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rancher Gary Tarbell stands in the sale barn at the Tulare County Stockyard watching as cattle pass through a gate, into a ring and, one by one, are sold to the highest bidder.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re going out of state, all these cattle,\u201d Tarbell says. \u201cThere\u2019s no water here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Just as farmers in the Central Valley are fallowing thousands of acres because of the drought, cattle ranchers are also cutting production. In fact, herd numbers nationwide are at their lowest since the 1950s, due in part to the Texas and California droughts.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had to cut way back,\u201d Tarbell says. \u201cI sold over half of my herd already because there\u2019s no water on the ranch.\u201d<\/p>\n

hat\u2019s not atypical, says Jon Dolieslager, owner of the\u00a0Tulare County Stockyard<\/a>. \u00a0\u201cEverybody here is selling, you know, probably double of what they would normally do just because they\u2019re out of feed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dolieslager is also the auctioneer. He takes a quick break from doing his auction cry \u2014 or, as some say, \u201ccattle rattle\u201d \u2014 and points to the pen behind him.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve probably got close to a thousand head of feeder cattle out there today that we have to sell,\u201d he says. Those are drought numbers.\u00a0On a sale day in a wet year, he would be selling anywhere from 300 to 500 feeder cattle \u2014 steers and heifers destined to go to feedlots.<\/p>\n

Dolieslager says about a quarter of his customers, who come mostly from the San Joaquin Valley and the Central Coast, have quit ranching for now because their springs and wells have dried up and there\u2019s no forage.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re all completely out of feed and do not want to have to buy alfalfa because of the high cost of alfalfa, because of the high cost of water\u201d to grow alfalfa, he says.<\/p>\n

Outside the barn, Kyle Loveall is waiting his turn to sell off some yearling cattle. He\u2019s the ranch manager for Elliott Land and Cattle.<\/p>\n

\u201cTypically, we wean our calves in early summer, run them over another year and sell them as yearlings,\u201d he says. \u201cLast year, we weaned them right away and sold them instead of keeping them because we didn\u2019t have enough feed and water.\u201d<\/p>\n

He\u2019s been a cowboy for 44 years, since the age of 14, and he\u2019s never seen a drought like this.<\/p>\n

\u201cLast year, we fed almost all year-round,\u201d he says. \u201cIt was a huge expense.\u201d \u00a0Just buying hay cost the ranch around $140,000, he says.<\/p>\n

So far, he says, the water is holding on the ranch he manages. But he bought a water truck just in case the creek beds and wells go dry and he needs to haul in water. But that would be pricy. Cows drink a lot.<\/p>\n

\u201cTwenty-five to 35, 40 gallons a day,\u201d he says. \u201cYeah, that\u2019s a lot of water, times 400, that\u2019s a lot of water.\u201d<\/p>\n

The ranch has reduced its breeding herd in the past three years by 60 percent, down to about 440 cows. And that means Loveall brought fewer calves to the auction this time.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is it,\u201d he says. \u201cThis is basically our income for the year. Instead of 600 calves, we\u2019re gonna sell 120 calves.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fortunately, beef prices are high.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese cattle will bring a lot of money but it\u2019d be nice if we had a thousand cows and the market was like this,\u201d Loveall says.<\/p>\n

Ranchers who are forced to sell will at least get a good price on their cattle, says Justin Oldfield, vice president of government affairs for the\u00a0California Cattlemen\u2019s Association<\/a>. But, he adds, there\u2019s a lot more to running a ranch than just buying and selling cattle.<\/p>\n

It takes a lot of time to build up a herd, Oldfield says. Ranchers look for certain traits, including disposition.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of that work that you\u2019ve put in, to putting together a cow herd that works for your ranch, goes out the window,\u201d says Oldfield.<\/p>\n

bout 30 minutes east of the Tulare County Stockyard, Sally Baker looks out at her ranch in the Sierra foothills directly below Sequoia National Park. She\u00a0points to an empty streambed where her cattle used to drink. It\u2019s not the only place on the ranch that\u2019s dry, she says.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur springs have all dried up on the west side of our ranch, and we had a well on the north end of the ranch also go dry,\u201d says Baker, a fourth-generation rancher.<\/p>\n

When Baker\u2019s dad died 20 years ago, she and her mom took over the ranch. Last year was particularly tough.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe unfortunately had to sell about 50 cows, which broke my heart,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

And they had to buy hay twice. But Baker says her mom grew up in the Depression, so she knows how to plan for the future.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd so we were fortunate,\u201d she says. \u201cWe had the means to do that. Unfortunately, a lot of ranchers didn\u2019t have a reserve and had to sell off a lot of their stock.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her mom, Sally Dudley, can see their cattle from her living-room window. Dudley has lived on the ranch for more than 60 years and is worried about the drought.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf it continues it\u2019s really going to be disastrous, because you know the water table is dropping and that\u2019s going to affect all of us,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

She doesn\u2019t do much of the physical labor anymore, but she still keeps the ranch\u2019s books.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou try to be frugal,\u201d she says. \u201cYou know, you just save for a rainy day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Or, in\u00a0her case, a really long drought.<\/p>\n

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