around the seguin area in the past 128 years. for priscilla, her family have a small operation of about 20 cattle. you brought to cattle and a calf? to cousin a calf, yes. why do you get rid of them? we are trying to reduce the number, trying to reduce how many we are feeding because there is no grass, and the hay we have will not last us through the winter. she says her farm is running out a grass the keep to hurt properly fed. it is hard. our fields are barren. you are trying to save the rest of the herd? yes. marty schwarzkopf has 170 cattle. he brought one to sell today. he says he also usually says 4 to 6000 bails of hay every year to cattle ranchers, but this year, the ground is so dry, he has only done about 300. i feel for a lot of people. they have been doing this a for years and years, and now they don t have anything to hold on to. they re having to look.
as cnn said ed lavandera reports, it is one of the many tough choices facing farmers. summers are supposed to be quiet inside the seguin cattle company auction barn in texas, but manager brian linesman says that the extreme heat and drought is forcing thousands of cattle ranchers to sell off their herds. what has it been like being in the cattle business this summer? pretty much a rollercoaster ride. it has been chaotic. it has just been desperate measures for people. cattle ranchers usually bring their herds to market in late fall, but the heat and lack of rain is making it financially impossible for many renters to keep sustaining the cows. but that is why he says that more than twice as many farmers as usual are lining up here to sell off portions of the cattle herds. federal forecasters say that this is the second driest year
san antonio. so many of these farmers and ranchers left with no good choices. reporter: it s a really difficult time, in fact, cattle ranchers tell us it s been decades since the economic and weather conditions have collided to create such a difficult time in cattle ranching and many of these cattle ranchers are selling off parts of their herds for a fraction of what they would usually be worth. summers are supposed to be quiet inside this cattle company auction barn in texas, but the manager says the extreme heat and drought is forcing thousands of cattle ranchers to sell off their herds. what s it been like being in the cattle business this summer? pretty much a roller coaster ride. it s an chaotic. it quit raining in october of last year. i mean, it s just been desperate measures for people. reporter: cattle ranchers usually bring their herds to market in late fall but the heat and lack of rain is making it
probably need more. also the sexual health clinics where a lot of monkeypox patients have been going, many of them don t bill private labs, like they don t send specimens to private labs because they say it s too much paperwork, they don t have the money to handle to have the staff to handle that paperwork so where many of these men are going with monkeypox, those clinics can t use the private labs so obviously that s a problem as well. brianna. certainly is. elizabeth, thank you for that report. thanks. extreme heat and drought forcing thousands of cattle ranchers to make a devastating choice. cnn is on the ground in texas, we spoke with several of them. new u.s. intelligence that more than 75,000 russians have been killed or wounded since the russian invasion of ukraine began. what does this say about the state of the war? want a worry-free way to kill bugs? zevo traps use light, not odors or chemical insecticides, to attract and trap flying insects. they work continuously
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