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<h1 class="mf-single-article-title">Hundreds of Thousands of Cattle are At Risk After Hurricane Harvey</h1>
<p class="mf-single-article-title-byline">By <span class="mf-single-article-author"><a href="https://modernfarmer.com/author/dan-nosowitz/">Dan Nosowitz</a></span> <span class="mf-single-article-date">on September 6, 2017</span></p>
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<p class="wp-caption-text">In its wake of devastation, Hurricane Harvey has also flooded mass amounts of cattle grazing land.</p>
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<p class="mf-single-article-excerpt">Hurricane Harvey has left Houston under water, but floods have widened creeks and rivers throughout southeastern Texas, too, including land used for grazing by cattle ranchers.</p>
<p>Much of the land outside Houston and Corpus Christi is rural, with major concentrations of farmers and ranchers. Those areas were not spared by Hurricane Harvey; for example, despite being pegged as a banner year for cotton, the <a href="http://modernfarmer.com/2017/08/hurricane-harvey-decimating-predicated-best-cotton-crop-years/">crop was decimated</a> by rain and flooding. But perhaps the most iconic Texan agricultural product is its beef, and the struggle to salvage millions of dollars worth of cattle has been intense.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-28/harvey-leaves-cows-stranded-in-floodwater-amid-soaked-pastures" target="_blank" rel="noopener">It’s estimated</a> that the designated disaster zone is home to 1.2 million head of beef cattle. Severe rains and flooding have left the normally calm pastures incredibly hazardous; many are at risk of drowning or being lost. Fences were destroyed by the hurricane, allowing the animals to roam and mingle with other populations, and many are not tagged in a way to indicate its owner. (Most are tagged so an owner can track it within the herd, but that tag doesn’t necessarily identify whom the animal belongs to.)</p>
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<p>Efforts to get cattle to safer, higher ground are hampered by the fact that much of this pastureland is covered in feet of standing water and is simply not accessible. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/03/us/harvey-cattle-helicopter.html?_r=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times has a great story</a> about Ryan Ashcraft, a 22-year-old helicopter pilot who’s doing his best to urge wandering, at-risk cattle to safer spots away from the flooded rivers and creeks of southeastern Texas. He flies close to the cattle, trying to herd them away from danger with the loud noise of his helicopter blades, and sometimes relies on a gun filled with rat-shot—small pellets that annoy but don’t hurt the thick-skinned animals—to move them.</p><div class="moder-vice-video-player-in-content vice-ad-video-container" style="text-align: center; margin-top: 25px; margin-bottom: 45px; " id="moder-99167956"><div class="vice-ads"><div class="vice-ads__label">From our partners at <span class="vice-svg-mark"><figure></figure><figcaption>VICE</figcaption></span></div></div>
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<p>But the struggles don’t stop there; even if the animal makes it to higher ground, that’s not to say it’ll find much to eat. There are attempts to set up supply points for animal feed, with pilots like Ashcraft dropping in bales of hay and protein-filled cattle cubes in these barren areas, but many ranchers are in a frantic state. They don’t know how many of their animals have survived, where they are, or how long they can live on their own out there.</p>
<p>If you can supply vital food and other products to help farmers and ranchers make it through the flood, <a href="https://texashelp.tamu.edu/donations-needed-for-hurricane-harvey-animal-supply-points/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">get in touch with Texas A&amp;M</a>, which is accepting donations.</p>
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