DRIED UP: Texas cattle industry faces existential crisis from historic drought

The American West is experiencing its driest period in human history, a megadrought that threatens health, agriculture and entire ways of life. DRIED UP is examining the dire effects of the drought on the states most affected — as well as the solutions Americans are embracing. See local angles to the DRIED UP series on kxan.com
AUSTIN, Texas — The megadrought in the Western U.S., the region’s worst in 1,200 years, is threatening America's cattle heartland: withering pastures, w