Randy Cree picks up a bale of hay while feeding ...

AP FILE PHOTO, FEB. 12 | published: February 25, 2013

Randy Cree picks up a bale of hay while feeding cattle on his farm near Big Springs, Kan. Years of drought are reshaping the U.S. beef industry with feedlots and a major meatpacking plant closing because there are too few cattle left in the United States to support them.