This Year’s Drought Forced Record Cattle Decline Not Seen in Texas Since the 1930s

This Year’s Drought Forced Record Cattle Decline Not Seen in Texas Since the 1930s

Brantley Hargrove

Dallas Observer

Texas cattle country lost some 600,000 head this year — a 12-percent reduction in the herd — driven by a drought that withered grasses and baked river beds and stock ponds.

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