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Drought crushes local beef industry in Hawaii |
October 04, 2012
HONOLULU (AP) -- Hawaii's beef market is backward. Nearly all the beef eaten here - 95 percent - arrives packaged on container ships from the U.S. mainland. At the same time, Hawaii cattle ranchers ship 40,000 live cattle each year to California, Kansas and other states, while just 4,000 are slaughtered for meat sales in Hawaii....
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