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 WASHINGTON (AP) - There is bad news for beef producers but some relatively good news for cotton and rice growers in the path of Hurricane Rita.
"That's big cattle country there," Agriculture Department meteorologist Brad Rippey said Thursday. Most of the counties stretching from the middle of the Texas Gulf Coast to Louisiana are involved heavily in beef production, Rippey said.
"They've got a couple days of warning, at the very least. I think producers are going to try to get livestock to the highest ground on their property," he said.
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