More than half of Texas' 254 counties have a larger cattle population than their human...
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According to data from the United States Department of Agriculture , farm animals outnumber their human counterparts in the state by a total of 114.5 million. In 75 out of Texas’ 254 counties, the farm animal to human ratio is greater than 10-to-1., the we analyzed county-level inventories for cattle, chicken, goats and more. Because the data are not collected annually, our analysis used data from 2017, the most recent year available.
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