FAYETTEVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Jack Daniel's is ending its decades-long cow feeder program, forcing farmers in Moore County and surrounding areas to sell their cattle herds as feed costs skyrocket.

The program allowed farmers to pick up slop, a corn byproduct from the Lynchburg distillery, for little to no cost to feed their livestock. Without this affordable feed source, many farmers are getting out of the cattle business altogether.

At the United Producers' auction house, farmers have been lining up since early morning to sell their cattle. The number of farmers exchanging their cattle for checks has been climbing over the past month.

"We are at the highest point cattle have ever been," one auction official said.

"Farmers for the past three or four weeks have been selling a lot of catt

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