August 19, 2011

Drought causes Texas an estimated $5.2 billion in crop and livestock losses

This season in Texas has not been a good one for the farming community due to the sever drought that has killed livestock and destroyed crops. A field survey from November to August this year has indicated that livestock losses are in the region of US$2.1 billion (€1.455 billion) and crop losses of US$3.1 billion (€2.148 billion) in Texas.

There will be more losses found when they harvested the crops said David Anderson, an economist with Texas A&M University's Texas AgriLife Extension Service, which released the numbers. "I think it's going to get bigger." Read more ...

This blog is written by Martin Little, The Global Miller, published and supported by the GFMT Magazine and the International Milling Directory from Perendale Publishers
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