Texas state officials are working to provide assistance to local farmers in Central Texas who lost crops, equipment, and livestock in the floods over the Fourth of July weekend, but could use additional funding and help with transportation, according to Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller on Newsmax.

Authorities are “still in search and rescue mode” and “haven’t assessed the damages yet” after floods ripped through six counties in Central Texas on Friday, killing over 100 people and leaving “dozens” still missing, Miller told Tuesday’s “National Report.”

“From an agricultural standpoint of it, I can tell you that there’s hundreds of miles of fencing that have been wiped out will need to be replaced,” he said. “Crops are gone, crops are underwater, tractors have been underwater. A lot of our farm equipment was swept down the river. Hay that was stored in the river bottom is either saturated and unusable or gone.

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