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  • 2
    Aug
    2012
    10:19pm, EDT

    Drought forces Midwest ranchers to sell off livestock

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    Chris Werland sorts cattle prior to auction at the Fairview Sale Barn on August 2, 2012 in Fairview, Illinois.

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    Jonathan Daniel Clark brings animals to be auctioned at the Fairview Sale Barn on August 2, 2012 in Fairview, Illinois.

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    Cows are auctioned at the Fairview Sale Barn on August 2, 2012 in Fairview, Illinois.

    Drought has forced many farmers in the Midwest to sell some or all of their sheep and cattle as they are faced with shortages of feed, water and healthy pasture land. Cattle at this auction were selling for about 25 percent less than they did in the spring when farmers were optimistic about this year's harvest.  Continue reading the full story.

    The most severe drought in the state's history has taken a devastating toll on the state's cattle ranchers, and beef prices are expected to rise by as much as 10 percent over the next year. NBC's Janet Shamlian reports.

     

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    Police: Man bites, and kills, dog while high on drugs

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    Police say a man was high on drugs when he killed a neighbor's dog in Waco, Texas. 


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    Michael Terron Daniel, 22, is charged with cruelty to a non-livestock animal, a felony because the dog died, NBC station KCEN of Waco reported.  

    KCEN reported that Daniel is accused of going  to a home on June 14 while high on the synthetic marijuana drug K-2, assaulting several people and chasing a neighbor on his hands and knees while growling like a dog. 


     

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    Michael Terron Daniel was high on the synthetic drug K-2 when witnesses say he bit into a family pet and killed it.

    Witnesses told police that Daniel then grabbed a medium-sized black dog and took it to the front porch, where he started beating and strangling it, the Waco Tribune-Herald reported. 

    The paper reported he began biting and ripping pieces of the animal's flesh. 

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    KCEN reported that when police arrived, Daniel was sitting on the front porch with the dead dog on his lap. Officers told the station he was incoherent and covered in the dog's blood and fur. 

    The Tribune-Herald reported Daniel told police he was on a "bad trip" because of the drug. He was taken to a hospital, then arrested on Monday.

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    Meanwhile, bath salt manufacturers are enjoying all the cash flow and those that cultivate real marijuana are in jail. There's something wrong here....

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