LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) - State agriculture officials say more than 7,150 feral hogs were killed as part of a competition to curb their numbers and limit the hundreds of millions of dollars in damage caused to crops and ranchland every year.
The Texas Department of Agriculture said Wednesday that Sutton County in West Texas won the $20,000 first-place prize in the Hog Out Challenge. The contest ran from October through December. Five other counties will share the remainder of the $60,000 in awards.
The results were based on a formula that considers the number of animals killed and participation by ranchers and others in educational programs.
Since the challenge began in 2010, 23,684 hogs have been killed.
An estimated 2.6 million hogs cause $550 million in damage annually in Texas.
Friday, April 18 2014 11:25 PM EDT2014-04-19 03:25:33 GMT
To help conserve water during the drought, the city of Amarillo is considering making changes starting from the ground up. City officials are looking over the current landscape ordinance with the goal of making possible changes to help better preserve water and make it more flexible property owners.The ordinance impacts businesses, and apartment complexes but not single family homes. One of the potential changes focuses on ground cover.Right now, it's required that 100 % of the land has som...
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