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GEOGRAPHY OF THE CATTLE INDUSTRY IN THE FLINT HILLS OF KANSAS
Abstract
This study is the outcome of field and library study of the distribution and characteristics of the cattle industry in the Flint Hills of Kansas. The area was chosen for a number of reasons. First, it is different from the surrounding territory in eastern Kansas. To the east, west, and north crop farming predominates. On the margins of the Flint Hills there is a transition from dominant grazing to cropping and grazing. This is as we might expect for relatively few areas or regions of the world can be definitely marked by a line which indicates an abrupt and distinct change of character. The area exhibits a real differentiation. For example, certain areas are more important for summer transient cattle, or the size of the farms and ranches vary from place to place within the area. The area possesses distinctive features and functions based, for the most part, on the natural conditions of the area and on the cattle industry. This may be considered geography because "Geography focuses on the similarity and differences among areas, on the interconnections and movements between areas, and on the order found in the space at or near the earth's surface."1 Second, the Flint Hills area is one of several grazing areas in the United States, and is the most easterly of these areas." Third, it is one of the two areas in the United States which have large influxes of transient cattle.2 Fourth, interconnections and movements exist be- tween the sources of surplus cattle and between grain finishing areas and regional markets.
Subject Area
Geography
Recommended Citation
WIBKING, ROBERT KENTON, "GEOGRAPHY OF THE CATTLE INDUSTRY IN THE FLINT HILLS OF KANSAS" (1963). ETD collection for University of Nebraska-Lincoln. AAI6304786.
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/dissertations/AAI6304786