About 65 tons of feed has been collected and will be shipped off in big rigs to the panhandle. All of it is for the thousands of heads of cattle that survived the fires but are starving.
With livelihoods at stake, North Texans are stepping up to help ranchers affected by the deadly panhandle wildfires.There are many organizations helping ranchers rebound as well as a group of strangers from North Texas who have bonded over a common goal.Inside Russell Iron Works Shop in Hunt County, owner Jeremy Russell is working with a different kind of material than he's used to."A lot of feed. We have 130,000 pounds of feed here. I think it’s about $23,000 worth," he said.
"I’ve even been contacted by people as far as Illinois that brought things down," he said.The feed will be dropped off directly on the ranchers' land to make it easily accessible.According to the Texas Department of Agriculture, the Texas Panhandle — known as "cattle country" — is home to 11 million head of cattle. That’s 85% of the state's population.Early estimates show more than 7,000 head of cattle died in the fire.
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