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US drought tearing the heart out of cattle industry

Josh Eilers inspects Wagyu feeder cattle during October’s AWA Japan Wagyu tour

 

 

A YOUNG Texas beef producer has given a graphic account of how the severe drought that has swept across the United States this year is tearing the heart out of the nation’s cattle industry.

Josh Eilers was one of 37 Wagyu cattle producers from Australia, Brazil and the US participating in the Australian Wagyu Association’s Japan Wagyu tour in October.

As we will outline in more detail in a separate article after Christmas, he runs a successful Wagyu breeding and farm-to-table beef  business near…

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