CBS News: GM grass linked to Texas cattle deaths

[freshwest]

41. Yeah, but the way the story is written, this was GMO not wild.

I understand the difference, plowing versus spreading, but this grass was special, wasn't it?

I wish I could have grown St. Augustine at least for my yard, or alfalfa for the herd, but even my bermuda was highly stressed. My neighbors with dairy cows used walking sprinklers to keep their grass going and it was the good stuff.

If not the GMO the rancher claims, not weeds, what killed them?

From the story, it was the product of the grass itself. Which is some scary stuff. As if the price of beef, shots, killing off ticks and other horrible things wasn't enough trouble already. It's been years since I've been out there, but it is a hard way to make a liviing.

I saw big ranches go out of business in a drought in the nineties. Families that had been ranching for generations, who really knew about raising the best cattle.

And the drought last year? Like the end of the world it seemed. They had better rain this year. This may not be drought related, even. All I can from here is the CBS version, singling out the seed itself.

Most disease takes a few days. The story says they were all good until that day.