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<p id="paragraph-1"><p>A deluge of rain from Hurricane Harvey is soaking Texas pastures, leaving some animals stranded in floodwater in the state that leads the United States in beef production.</p>



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<p id="paragraph-2">At least 25 inches of rain fell at Wendt Ranches near Bay City, Texas, prompting floodwaters to start rising quickly on Sunday, rancher Gene Kubecka said. Water was waist-deep in some areas, and Kubecka used a tractor to drive through the washed-out area and move 600 head of cattle to higher ground. </p>



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<p id="paragraph-3">The area is north of Rockport, where Harvey made landfall on Aug. 25.</p>



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<p id="paragraph-4">Cattle futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange rose as much as 2.6 percent Monday, reaching the highest price in almost three weeks.</p>



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<p id="paragraph-5">&#x201c;The water started rising, and within about two to three hours we went from OK to &#x2018;we have to do something real quick,&#x2019;&#x201d; Kubecka said Monday by phone. &#x201c;We&#x2019;ve never had this much rain on the ranch.&#x201d;</p>



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<p id="paragraph-6">Flooding is expected to have a significant impact on ranchers in rural areas outside Corpus Christi and Houston, said Jeremy Fuchs, spokesman for the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association. </p>



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<p id="paragraph-7">So far, it&#x2019;s been very difficult for ranchers in the area to get out onto the pastures and assess damage as some roads are impassable and it&#x2019;s still raining, he said.</p>



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<p id="paragraph-8">Harvey drenched Houston, the nation&#x2019;s fourth-largest city, with as much as 30 inches of rain. More than 30,000 people will need shelter as a result of the storm, according to a government estimate. </p>



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<p id="paragraph-9">The downpours are forecast to last through the week. The storm sent ripples through agriculture markets as cotton crops and coffee stockpiles also were threatened by the floodwaters.</p>



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<p id="paragraph-10">Sanderson Farms, the third-largest chicken processor in the nation, shut its plant in Bryan, about 100 miles northwest of Houston, after several roads became &#x201c;impassable, making it difficult to get to farms and&#x201d; ship product from the facility, Chief Financial Officer Mike Cockrell said in an email Monday. The company is filling orders from other plants. </p>



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<p id="paragraph-11">Dean Foods also closed an area factory that makes fluid milk products, juices and teas, according to the company.</p>



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<p id="paragraph-12">Teams from the Texas Animal Health Commission haven&#x2019;t been able to get out to assess the situation yet due to the rain and flooding, said Thomas Swafford, the group&#x2019;s spokesman. It&#x2019;s hard to say how much of an impact the &#x201c;catastrophic flood and storm&#x201d; will have on livestock until crews can get out to check on them, he said.</p>



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<p id="paragraph-13">&#x201c;A significant amount of cattle raisers have been impacted by this,&#x201d; Fuchs said Monday by phone from Austin. &#x201c;We suspect there are going to be lots of fences down, lots of cattle out and lots of work to be done to rebuild the infrastructure and recover those animals.&#x201d;</p>



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<p id="paragraph-14">There&#x2019;s at least a foot of standing water on pastures owned by rancher Ray Law, who has 100 head of cattle on his farm 20 miles east of downtown Houston. He&#x2019;s so far been unable to round up the animals amid heavy rain, he said by phone on Monday. </p>



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<p id="paragraph-15">About half his 70 chickens died after a pen flooded, and &#x201c;it was raining so hard I couldn&#x2019;t get in there to get them out,&#x201d; he said. Some of his cows are stranded in the floodwater.</p>



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<p id="paragraph-16">The pasture land is &#x201c;high enough that they&#x2019;re not going to drown, but they&#x2019;re not happy,&#x201d; Law said, noting some of the cows are probably in water up to their knees. </p>



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