Thursday, March 07, 2013

Texas Awards $60K In Contest To Kill Feral Hogs

 CBS Dallas / Fort Worth: More than 7,150 feral hogs were killed as part of a competition to curb their numbers in Texas and limit the hundreds of millions of dollars in damage caused to crops and ranchland every year, state agriculture officials said Wednesday. 

The Texas Department of Agriculture awarded Sutton County in West Texas the $20,000 first-place prize in the Hog Out Challenge that ran from October through December.

Hat tip to Seepy Benton.

1 comment:

Deb said...

Well, it seems to have worked out better than Florida's great python hunt debacle.