Drought in the Southern Urals. Dry soil, shallow river, bare pastures with drooping grass. A herd of cows in the pasture. Meeting at the director of the state farm "Uysky" Ye. G. Deineka, at which the heads of the state farm discuss the problem of feed for livestock. Sprinklers work on a field of forage grass. Forage grass harvesting with hay mowers. The cut grass is poured into the bunker, the cows eat the grass in the trough. The city of Kopeysk. The emblem of the city of Kopeysk. Assembly of mobile pumping stations in the shop of the Kopeysk Machine-Building Plant. Straw harvesting in one of the agricultural enterprises. Straw pressing in the feed shop. Workers unload the compressed straw machine. Reed cleaning at the Danguzlovsky state farm. Heads of state and collective farms in the field at a seminar on the use of reeds for livestock feed. Director of the state farm "Danguzlovsky" GI Dranichnikov shows equipment for harvesting reeds. Harvesting shrubs for making vitamin flour at the Novy Ural state farm. The harvester mows the bush. Processing of branches on a special unit. Vitamin flour in the hopper. The townspeople are gathering branches, mowing nettles at a volunteer clean-up in one of the villages. Processing of grass, twigs and straw into feed pellets in the feed shop. Sheep-breeding complex at the "Ural" state farm. Sheep breeders put the pellets into the feeders. Sunflowers, potatoes, cabbage in the fields of the Pobeda collective farm. Sprinkler installations are in operation.