As a partner in a consulting service specializing in records for agribusiness, I probably see as many cattle-feeding operations as anyone in the country. So when I started preparing for this presentation I thought of the problems that we have as an industry and of a few solutions. I also thought of some of the things I have seen recently that I like--some operating procedures that may not work for everyone, and some that are not really new, but whose applications make good common sense to me. I would like to share some of these with you.