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My father-in-law lost his house in Bastrop Texas today and we have a number of them burning around our neck of the woods today. High wind from Lee is all we got and you would have though we lived in West Texas with all the dust. A lot of pasture has turn to dirt with no grass and in some cases no trees even left. It may have been a good thing the state has done away with livestock market reports, because the way it’s looking their will not be any cattle left around here. At my last week of sales we had buyer from Ala, Tenn, Ga, and Fl picking up cattle. One week we had 1355 hd of just cows and the next week close to 1100 hd. It was a good thing because there weren’t any local ranchers buying any. Most of the older ranchers are selling totally out and will not restock. They are saying they will lease out their pasture or maybe make hay on it when it does come back. The younger ranchers are just wondering what to do, because when it does turn around cattle will be so high that they will not be able to afford them. As for myself I still have cattle because of the Trinity River for water for the livestock. The owners of them are bringing me hay for them with supplements for them to. Now if the Trinity goes dry and it get pretty low I guess I will have to close up shop to. Today was the first day without 100 degree temperature in a month or two. So I pray this is coming to an end.
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