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Chick-News.com Poultry Industry News, Comments and more by Simon M. Shane

Impact of Severe Winter Weather on Texas Agriculture

03/28/2021

Agricultural economists are currently calculating losses sustained by farmers as a result of the mid-February freeze. Strawberry fields were damaged in Louisiana and Alabama. Crawfish production will be adversely affected in Louisiana.  Extensive losses in green produce were recorded along the Rio Grande Valley and the Winter Garden near Laredo damaging papayas, watermelons, citrus, avocados and bananas that are extremely susceptible to sub-freezing temperatures. Crop damage is estimated to excede $500 million.

 

It is estimated that 15 percent of newborn calves in Oklahoma were lost.  Accumulation of ice on rivers has impacted grain transport according to the Waterways Council, a river transportation association.

 

Losses in the broiler industry are detailed in a companion article in this edition.


 
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