Officials Beef Up Airlift for Cattle
From Times Wire Reports
The state stepped up its emergency relief effort for battered livestock ranchers, dropping more than 100 tons of food to herds stranded by fierce snowstorms. Six C-130 military cargo planes rumbled just 300 feet above the snow-covered high plains of eastern New Mexico, dumping 1-ton bales of hay to starving cattle and sheep. State officials say at least 5,000 animals have been killed by a series of snowstorms since Christmas Eve and that about 180,000 more are at risk.
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