An Editorial by Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller

September 19, 2025

I’ve always put one thing above all: protecting the hardworking men and women who keep our state running. Right now, they’re under attack, not from foreign competitors or federal regulators, but from the devastation caused by wildfires and the delays and denials by those who should be stepping up.

Let’s start with the land itself. Forage isn’t just grass. It’s the very currency of ranching. Every acre that burns isn’t just a charred field, but years of lost nutrition for cattle, higher feed bills, and families watching their livelihood’s foundation turn to ashes. Forage is what transforms pasture into protein. To put an arbitrarily low per-acre number on it is like pricing a diamond by the ounce – it misses the

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