The brown and black cattle of Texas, beloved symbols of the Lone Star state, walk through desiccated grass and stand in shrunken watering holes while their ranchers struggle to get them enough food.
are stressing the health of cattle in Texas - the top beef-producing state in the U.S. by far - leading some ranchers to think about thinning their herds to save money on animal feed and hay.
Dry conditions last year drove ranchers in East Texas to sell more than 2.66 million cattle from January 2022 through August 2022 — an increase of more than 480,000 cattle compared to that time period the previous year, according to the Texas Farm Bureau. "Well, certainly for the next few decades, the trends are going to continue," Nielsen-Gammon said. "This sort of heat will become normal in the summertime for Texas. And that, in addition, means that the heat extremes will be that much hotter and that much more severe."Cattle move throughout a pasture during a heat wave, on rancher David Henderson's ranch property, in Tennessee Colony, Texas, U.S. August 3, 2023.
Jimmy Reed owns the Cattle Ranch Supply store in Tennessee Colony and, with pastures diminished, has been sending out feed deliveries to ranchers in early August instead of the normal time in mid-November.
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