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KINSHIP CIRCLE ANIMAL DISASTER AID NETWORK has been asked by the Iowa Dept. of Agriculture/Veterinary Response Coordinator to support rescue operations for Iowa animal flood victims and send volunteers where needed. If you’ve seen the expanse of Midwest floods in news coverage -- you know we have our work cut out for us! We thank KC Primary subscribers for their patience during this time...as we’ve been unable to focus on other campaigns.
Tom Planchet THURSDAY - 6:07 P.M. - (AP): Producers have lost at least 80% of the cattle in Plaquemines Parish. LSU AgCenter cattle specialist Doctor Jason Rowntre says one herd of 2,500 cows in the Venice area is unaccounted for. Venice is the last town on Louisiana Highway 23 at the mouth of the Mississippi River. Rowntree says another one-thousand head of cattle are stranded on a levee. But volunteers are taking hay to them by airboat until they can be rescued. Elsewhere in the hurricane damaged area, losses are expected to be much lower. Rowntree says that in Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes hay fields and pastures are under as much as 12 feet of water, but observers believe cattle losses are less than 5%. North of Lake Pontchartrain, wind damaged barns and structures but left the cattle relatively unharmed.
Falgout also has 200 head of cows at her ranch near Amite, but she’s afraid that some might have gotten loose after large oaks fell on fences. A nearby friend’s champion show cow was killed by a falling tree during the storm, she said.
She has several friends who had cattle in Plaquemines Parish, including one man with 1,000 head.
“They’re not seeing any of those so far,” she said. Another friend with 300 head has found 30 “but they won’t be able to tell whose they are until they can get them out of the water.”
Falgout said airboats are the main means of transportation in Plaquemines Parish. Feed and hay are being placed on sheets of tin roofing and perched on tree limbs to feed the cattle that are struggling in the salty floodwater, she said.
She said her friend and fellow LSU AgCenter Leadership classmate Patty Vogt of Port Sulphur is working frantically to save cattle and equipment. She said Vogt lost her 50-acre citrus crop that was only weeks away from harvest.
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