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Raising cows across America     Cattle are creation produced all across the United States. From Canada to the Gulf of Mexico and from calcium to the Atlantic Ocean there are several thousand proposition of cattle being raised. However these cattle are all being raised the some way or under the same conditions. Ranchers in the north have to deal with snow and ice while the grey ranchers are dealing with mud, water, and, mosquitoes. The people raising cattle in the midwestern United States are faced with droughts and having to keep their crops and cattle watered.      Raising cattle in the blue part of the United States is more than just raising cattle and being cold while you do it. Keeping your cattle with sweet-flavored water, hunt down, and, convert is sometimes a task anywhere in the bucolic much less when you have to deal with temperatures that are twenty degrees to a lower place zero. When it is this cold outside your cattle d o not have fresh-cut water until you go and break the five to ten inches of ice on top of their water trough. Feeding your herd also creates problems. When you get the hay for your herd to make it through the winter it can not be just any hay. You have to send your hay to a research laboratory to get it tested. By having your hay tested this tells you if your hay has enough protein for your cattle to make it through the harsh winters. Weve had cattle starve to death with abounding bellies says Paul Walker, extension livestock agent of Alamance County, North Carolina. They received big money of hay but it was not enough to meet their nutritional needs. The hay you feed needs to be at least nine to fourteen percent protein. The higher the protein the better the hay is and the better the hay you feed the better your cows will be.      Just below the extreme northern part of the country is where droughts are a