Flooding Leads to Cattle Rescues Around the Country

By Wyatt Bechtel, Drovers

Before the Morganza Spillway gates opened and flooded nearly 350 acres of pasture, Ricky Rivet, owner of Ricky Rivet Farms near Morganza, Louisiana, moved his whole herd out of the path on May 29. “I don’t want to do this at all, but it’s something I have to do. I mean, this is the reality.