{"id":3210,"date":"2011-12-14T12:15:09","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T18:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/?p=3210"},"modified":"2011-12-14T12:21:57","modified_gmt":"2011-12-14T18:21:57","slug":"things-we-lost-in-the-drought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2011\/12\/14\/things-we-lost-in-the-drought\/","title":{"rendered":"Things We Lost in the Drought"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Grinch promotes his movie in Universal City, California.<\/p><\/div>\n

And the hits keep coming. There will be no oysters this year in Texas, USA Today<\/em> reports<\/a>: “a\u00a0monstrous bloom of toxic algae looming across the Texas coast has shut down oyster season.” Because of the drought, the paper reports, “the algae could cause nausea, vomiting and diarrhea in humans and is harmful to fish but not fatal to people.”<\/p>\n

The ongoing Texas drought is\u00a0responsible\u00a0for billions of dollars in losses and counting. Here are just some of the things that we’ve lost in the drought:<\/p>\n

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  1. Burgers.<\/strong> Beef prices are set to rise dramatically<\/a> after a massive sell-off of cattle in Texas last year because of the drought, we reported recently. There are far fewer calves as a result, and what cattle is left has to be fed with grain that is also more expensive than before. This means higher prices at the market in the future.<\/li>\n
  2. Pecans.<\/strong> Two things are hurting domestic pecan production this year: the drought, as you probably guessed, and demand from China. “The average price for a pound of pecans is about $11 this year,” the Associated Press reports<\/a>. “That’s up from $7 a pound in 2008 and $9 last year.”<\/li>\n

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