Drought Puts Texas Ranchers, And Cattle, At Risk : NPR

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Drought Puts Texas Ranchers, And Cattle, At Risk : NPR:

EXCERPT  |  " ... "Listening to the Texas Farm Bureau's reassurance that the cattle industry is not going to go away completely is a revelatory moment. In the midst of a nasty, tenacious recession, Mother Nature is kicking rural Texas right in the teeth."
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If this were a normal year, an August cattle auction in Emory would see maybe 100 to 200 head. There are more than 700 head today. And that's down from the more than 1,000 head sold here every Tuesday for much of this summer. The sad truth is, East Texas is starting to run out of stock to sell.

Inside the auction room, buyers in jeans and cowboy hats, here from Michigan and Wisconsin, Tennessee and Alabama, raise their fingers in front of their chests to bid. One cow, one calf, one bull after another, until late into the night. The Lone Star State is emptying itself of its cattle. ( WADE GOODWYN. August 26, 2011. NPR.) ... "

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http://www.npr.org/2011/08/26/139947317/drought-puts-texas-ranchers-and-cattle-at-risk?ft=1&f=1001

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