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Cattle Company (RLCC; lat 37°46′N, long 104°20′W) is 60 miles southwest of La Junta, Colorado. RLCC lies between 5,400 feet and 6,000 feet elevation and contains 14,020 acres in the shortgrass steppe ecoregion. Mean annual precipitation over the last 60 years was 11.4 inches. Approximately one-third of the ranch has mixed piñon-juniper and shortgrass prairie habitat around small canyons in the Dakota Sandstone and two-thirds of the ranch is open shortgrass steppe. RLCC consists mostly of loamy plains and sandy plains ecological sites in Major Land Resource Area 69. Records and Assessments Precipitation measurements were averaged from the Rocky Ford and Fowler weather stations. Managers maintained animal performance and grazing records through our study (Table 1). Annual economic records were synthesized through a

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