Texas Panhandle

Yeah, both of that is accurate.

And the strain we have in Washington is the same strain that originally started in the Texas panhandle.

back in March of 2024.

It's the B313 strain.

There's rolling flatlands all around me.

I'm actually in the outskirts of the city of Amarillo in the Texas Panhandle.

The voice you hear in the background belongs to Gina Hinojosa.

No relation.

just get the family on the boat and like, okay, we're untouchable? You just hang on.

You're like, okay, we're in the Texas panhandle now.

We just have to make it back home.

Once they hit the Gulf of Mexico, things will really chill out.

That's the most since 1974.

There's 2.4 times the median in 1985 centered on Southwest Kansas and the Texas panhandle where they got some of that flooding there.

And as we can see, The dots there are certain years, and the farther you go on the right is the more rain that you've gotten.

And if you're up high, those are the... kill weights that you we have had above the normal and if you're below then those are the kill weights that we have had below the normal and the title of that chart though there is wet falls haven't met lighter cattle now we might just assume because we get poor feed yard conditions we want to push these things to the packer faster but we can't say this has historically been the case as you can see there 1985 the last year it was near even near this bad for feedlot conditions and We still had steers kind of towards the median there.

On a lighter, I guess lighter note, there might be some, once they deal, which I hope, priorities, once they deal with the essential stuff like schools and data centers and water infrastructure in this state, I am not kidding.

I mentioned before when I was a news director in the Panhandle, we were part of a statewide push.

They called it Texas Runs on Water.

And we need to address this because they're not making any more of it.

Nearly $4 million in grants will support 10 Kansas meat processors' refrigeration, packaging, and processing equipment.

Separately, a federally guaranteed loan supports a proposed Texas panhandle plant designed to handle approximately 400 cattle per day.

Additional regional outlets depend on completion and startup.

Projected capacity is not operating throughput.

The summer heat and drought took a bite out of Texas cucumbers.

Emma Kaufman reports from the Panhandle.

Fall is harvest time for many crops, including cucumbers.

I talked with Vice President of Agriculture with Best Made Products, Stephen Goetz, in Plainview, Texas, about what they saw out in the fields.

But if you put that in a dry county with a small utility and the community isn't really prepared to have the infrastructure pool of a data center, everybody will be asking, like, how are they going to support this? And if they can't continue to get clean water, there doesn't seem to be really good answers about what's going to happen or where it's going to come from.

Recently, there were even some remarks about a data center in the Panhandle in Amarillo, Texas, that said that the data centers had worked out a contract that stated that if water became short, that the data center would be priority over the citizens.

And it's things like this that give people a lot of heartburn and honestly will just piss you off because it doesn't make any sense in those environments because you need those people to support the data center and the data center is winning over humans.

Like this doesn't make any sense.