Ogallala Aquifer | What Happens When the Water Runs Out, National Geographic Magazine: Beef Empire Days Parade

Four girls in uniforms stretch and warm up under a towering grain elevator and along railroad tracks

Beef Empire Days Parade and BBQ the entire town was fed a tri-tip steak for free. Small town events are an important part of belonging.  Young girls practice for a performance under the tall grain elevator along the railroad tracks that has taken corn out town to sell all over the world. But now those tracks bring corn to Garden City, Kansas  for the feedlots that ring the area.