Preliminary ranching costs for April’s wildfires tops $26 million
Preliminary ranching costs for April’s wildfires tops $26 million
08 May 2018
Published by https://newsok.com/
USA – Losses sustained by ranchers from April wildfires that burned through parts of Dewey and Woodward counties in west-central and northwest Oklahoma are estimated at more than $26 million, an agricultural marketing specialist stated Monday.
Derrell Peel, who works with Oklahoma State University’s Cooperative Extension Service, also stressed that estimate will change as a more information is gathered.
“More than 348,000 acres burned, causing a wide variety of losses to livestock, pastures, hay, fences and facilities,” Peel stated in a release.
His calculations were based upon preliminary losses of some 1,600 head of cattle and the fact the fires affected more than 2,100 miles of fencing surrounding ranchers’ lands.
