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<br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br /> <br />00220 <br /> <br />tries, demographic characteristics, and cropping patterns represent <br />aspects of most counties in the larger northern and south~rn sub-reaions. <br />Also, most advantageously, very good data sources were available on <br />the localities to supplement personal visits to key activities <br />within the counties. <br />Following General Contractor approval of case-study area <br />selections, the initial field work in Southwest Kansas was accom- <br />plished in October 1980, with follow-up work in Topeka in the <br />summer of 1981 to round out information and data needs. Initial <br />field work in the Texas South Plains which centers around Lubbock, <br />the major cotton producing counties of the southern region, was <br />accomplished in the early spring of 1981. Follow-up work was <br />conducted in late 1981, in order to observe some rapidly changing <br />agricultural developments at the end of the 1981 crop year. <br />This Report is a synthesis of discussions with some 75 per- <br />sons in the Texas South Plains and 70 persons in Southwest Kansas, <br />together with much information contained in more than 160 published <br />reports and other documents collected in the course of the field <br />surveys. Discussions were held with farmers, ranchers, feedlot <br />managers and owners, meat packers, grain elevator operators, <br />farm implement dealers, irrigation pipe and pump suppliers, well <br />drillers, commodities specialists, cattle buyers, cotton gin <br />operators, textile mill owners and managers, bank presidents, bank <br />agricultural representatives, farm real estate brokers, land-value <br /> <br />II 1-7 <br /> <br />Arthur D Little,lnc <br />