FOOD SUPPLY ON FIRE - Over 85% of Texas cattle are raised in the panhandle, which is currently burning.... the worst fire in the state's history.... the 2nd biggest fire in US history!

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[–]Gaslov 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Bullshit. No way 85% of Texas cattle are in the panhandle.

[–]In-the-clouds[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Another source says even higher: 88%.....

The majority–88 percent–of Texas’ total cattle and calves on feed are in the Panhandle.

https://texasfarmbureau.org/report-cattle-texas-u-s/

I don't know how the phrase "on feed" affects this number.

[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Generally speaking industries like farming don't spontaneously show up everywhere. What happens is when a neighbor or friend tries a business that is successful everyone tries to copy it. Also, the successful person expands. What you get with husbandry is an attempt to expand as much and as fast as possible, and clusters of the same animal/crop.

So it is not only possible, but probable. That is, however, just Texas. That effect is not about state lines so that "cell" probably goes into new Mexico, Oklahoma, Kansas and Colorado.

The cattle have been moved, they will graze somewhere else or have hay brought to them. It is not a threat to the food supply.

[–]Gaslov 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Cattle are damn near everywhere in Texas.