Drought conditions in some of the country’s largest cattle producing areas are on the rise.
Texas A&M livestock economist David Anderson says he wasn’t expecting to have to talk about drought conditions this severe so soon after the 2011/2012 drought. “We’ve got a lot of cows, but some substantial drought areas and we have some drought-forced sales of cows,” he says. “People are having to make some early decisions and move some cows out earlier and I think that also extends into some calves and having to move them also.”
USDA Meteorologist Brad Rippey says Texas received significant rainfall recently, and that’s headed into other parts of the Corn Belt.
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