Texas wildfires have consumed acres of agricultural land, killing thousands of livestock, destroying crops and exacerbating challenges lingering from last year’s drought.
Don Gourd watches hay being loaded onto his trailer at a donation site for livestock feed and ranch supplies for people affected by the Smokehouse Fire in Borger on Friday. Gourd plans to drop off the hay to neighbors.The largest wildfire in Texas history has devastated the state’s agriculture, blazing through more than 1 million acres of land in the Panhandle, killing thousands of livestock, destroying crops and gutting infrastructure.
“It’s quite a bit of loss,” Maul said. “Any inventory that had saved up, being hay or grass, has gone. They're gonna have to feed them every bite they get for the next little bit.” After loading up the supplies, donated by family and friends, Sparks drove more than 330 miles to Canadian, a town near the border with Oklahoma.said that people who lost livestock and horses are not eligible to receive FEMA disaster assistance.
“It’s a tough situation,” he said. “Ranchers’ income from crops and livestock is gone. So they'll just have to pull themselves up by the bootstraps and do the best they can.” , a trade organization for cattle raisers and landowners, worries about the fires’ impact on the market because they have wiped out pasture land and cattle feed, which will decrease the ranchers’ ability to feed their cows. Female cattle are important for rebuilding and growing herds. Uhl predicts fire-related losses will decrease cattle supply even further.
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