Cargill Donating $50K In New Fencing Materials To Wildfire Relief

Cargill Inc. said its Wichita, Neb.-based North American protein business is donating $50,000 in new fencing materials to ranchers who lost fences during last week’s fast-moving wildfire in western Kansas and two nearby states.The wildfires consumed more than 1,000 square miles of grazing land in rural Kansas, destroying an estimated 100,000 miles of ranch fencing in Kansas alone, Cargill noted in a news release.The company said the Kansas Livestock Association told officials that replacement fencing materials were needed more than anything else to rebuild what the fire destroyed.After winning approval from Cargill’s protein leadership team, the Cargill Wichita team then purchased two semi-tractor-trailer loads of fencing materials that were delivered this week in support of relief efforts in the Ashland, Kan., region. A Cargill team in Dodge City also is supporting employees from two beef processing plants who lost their homes and all of their belongings in the fires, the company added.The fires affected more than 1 million acres of land in Kansa, Oklahoma and Texas and killed at least six people, according to local reports last week.