Texas dairy farm tragedy: 18,000 cattle lost in fire and buried with aid from environmental agency.

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Texas dairy farm tragedy: 18,000 cattle lost in fire and buried with aid from environmental agency.
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The fire that killed 18,000 dairy cows in a West Texas farm has been extinguished and the staggering death count revealed. Now, comes the messy, unprecedented task of disposing of them. Typically, dead farm animals can be buried, hauled to landfills or even composted, but the sheer number of carcasses in this incident makes the task monumental. Officials have not said what method of disposal they will use in the case of the South Fork farm disaster.

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