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Texas Agriculture Archive
April 7, 2006
Wildfire areas open
to CRP grazing
Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns has announced that agricultural producers in six Oklahoma counties and 27 north Texas counties currently being impacted by wildfires may harvest dry grass and graze cattle on Conservation Reserve Program acreage, without facing charges of gaining value from removing forage.
More than 1 million acres have burned in Texas and Oklahoma due to wildfires. In addition to providing much-needed feed, allowing producers to relocate livestock from burned pastures to CRP acreage should lower the risk of additional wildfires, according to USDA.
The six affected Oklahoma counties are: Washita, Canadian, Jefferson, Custer, Cleveland and Osage.
The 27 Texas counties are: Armstrong, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Childress, Collingsworth, Cottle, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Donley, Gray, Hall, Hansford, Hartley, Hemphill, Hutchinson, Lipscomb, Moore, Motley, Ochiltree, Oldham, Potter, Randall, Roberts, Sherman, Swisher and Wheeler.
