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South Dakota Rancher Relief Fund Established
Thu, 10 Oct 2013 05:15:24 CDT
The South Dakota Cattlemen's Association, South Dakota Stockgrowers Association and South Dakota Sheep Growers Association have joined together and established the South Dakota Rancher Relief Fund Oct. 8, 2013 with the Black Hills Area Community Foundation to provide support and relief assistance to those in the agriculture industry impacted by the blizzard of Oct. 4-7,2013.
The fund will be administered by the South Dakota Stockgrowers Association, the South Dakota Cattlemen's Association and the South Dakota Sheep Growers Association for the direct benefit of the livestock producers impacted by this devastating blizzard.
Click here to donate online. Donors can also mail checks to Black Hills Community Area Foundation/SD Rancher Relief Fund made out to the "Rancher Relief Fund." The mailing address is PO Box 231, Rapid City, 57709.
Brownfield Ag News is reporting that the death losses could go well above the initial estimates- "There are fears that cattle losses from the record snowstorm in western South Dakota may exceed what was originally estimated, according to Silvia Christen, executive director of the South Dakota Stockgrowers Association. Based on talking to producers who had been confident of some of their stock finding shelter, she had originally guessed at 5 percent death loss from the storm. Although Christen doesn't have solid numbers yet, she is getting additional information from cattlemen.
"At this point I think we're well above five percent loss, but I'm really hesitant to make any further projections just because I don't know how far the losses have gone and how high that number might still climb," Christen told Brownfield Ag News on Wednesday. "I'm very scared of what we're still discovering out there in the fields."
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