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Show 66 Mr. CANNON. I am sure Mr. Bowler has some experience with that. Mr. BOWLER. I have visited with two different people who have property under that program to see if it was possible to rent their pasture from them. The people that I have talked to have no water on their property, no live water that they can irrigate or water livestock on. And so that's going to be a problem in some areas. Most of them have not had fences, don't have any fences, are in the middle, quite a few of them in the middle of farming areas so there's going to be a lot of problems involved. There is some feed available in the middle of the State of Utah that under that program, in our area that wouldn't matter. I have pasture that I have down in my area that could be considered. That's because I rotate my grazing and I don't graze only every third year and some of these pastures should have had feed up a foot high. It never greened up this year. I told you rye didn't sprout. The grass didn't green, just stayed. What feed I have is what was there last year so that's going to be dried feed to the southern end of the state. When you go up to Fillmore I have seen some areas up there and I talked to some of those people about doing something but the problem is no fence, no water. Mr. BAIRD. Got you. That's helpful. Let me make an observation. Clearly there are a lot of demands here, a lot of needs, and folks are suffering a great deal, and it is something that, you know, we all like being helped. I just can conceptualize hearing requests for additional funding for a meteorological system, including drought, water, soil moisture, and things of that sort. Obviously, there's some need for other projects and aid to the farmers. I just conceptualize the fact that we are a hundred million dollars in deficit right now, so the ability to meet those demands may be constrained, to say the least. I am not sure how to deal with this necessarily, but it is going to be a difficult challenge. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. CANNON. Thank you, Mr. Bowler. I am trying to figure the 70 years. You don't look 70. You must be counting the time your mother was tending the cows before you got here. Mr. BOWLER. My statement was my grandfather gave each first child in the family a heifer, so I had a heifer when I was born. Mr. CANNON. YOU don't look 70 years old. Mr. BOWLER. Thank you. DROUGHT EFFECT ON CATTLE PRICES Mr. CANNON. Your testimony is just horrible, it is just horrific to think about what you were talking about, people having cows die traversing your property. You talked about prices. If everybody is dumping their cattle at auction, what is going on with prices? It is, two- fold one with cows or calves that need to be Mr. BOWLER. I tried to cover that in my report. What normally would happen a year ago, two years ago at this time of year someone would have come to my herd and wanted to buy a cow and a calf, what we call a pair. They would have been eight to nine hundred a pair. What happens now is they take them to the auction and if they are lucky, they get $ 400 a pair. Say that in three months if my calves had feed, in three months the age of these |