Another cowgirl rancher friend is throwing in the towel. She is having to sell the ranch that has been in her family for 150 years. She is not a “quitter”. She is a tough, strong Texas woman that has survived through so much already. She already sold half her cattle but even that wasn’t enough. This drought has kicked everyone’s butt! She only has one stock tank (pond) that hasn’t gone dry but it’s about to be. The price of hay, feed, fertilizer, weed kill, fuel for tractors and farm trucks is absolutely putting everyone in the red. People have tried to hang on. Our way of life is being taxed and priced out of existence. We cannot even sell cattle for even close to what the middle-man makes and the grocery stores and we are the ones that put our blood, sweat and tears into those cattle. we also risk injury and death working them. For what? To go deeper into debt? To shorten our lives from the stress of trying to make any semblance of a small profit? No medical insurance either. 😢🕊🙏

❤️I pray that she can hold on and have faith that Gold will divinely guide and protect her family.

I don’t think she can dig out at this point. She is pretty tired of fighting at this point too. She has fought through many things and at some point it tipped the scale for her and her finances…..or more like, went over a cliff. We can pray.

How can we help?
We just can't sit back and let this happen.
They are going to take every single small business and stomp them to the ground if we don't stick together.
There must be something to be done.
I'd work extra hours to donate to her.
sigh.
This is just gut wrenching to watch happen.