Cartels are retaliating for being labeled terrorists by using an IED to kill someone

To make it even better, some of the advice given or lack thereof is reading like absolute nonsense when considering it's the Agriculture commissioner giving safety tips to farmers and ranchers:

• Avoid dirt roads and remote areas: Impractical given that it's cattle ranching, and ranchers are going to be the people who will need to use these roads most often.

• Avoid cartel controlled regions: How would ranchers identify these regions without more specific information?

• Limit travel to daylight hours: Agricultural work typically requires work in the early morning and evening.

• Stay on main roads: I'm going to go out on a limb and say Texas' ranches are like any other ranch in any part of the US that has a lot of ag, which is that many of them are only accessible by secondary roads.

• Report suspicious activity to law enforcement: how? To which law enforcement agency? Just local police? The sheriff? Send a tip to the Feds? It's incredibly vague on who to report to and how when considering this is cartel activity we're talking about. And there's no mechanism provided to do so. There's actually no mention at all of any specific resources.

• Basically says LRGV is important and then essentially advises to avoid it. Which is fricking enormous. Also it implies that their so called backbone of Texan agriculture should just be abandoned.

• Stay vigilant: but gives no specific threat indicators to watch out for, so that's fricking meaningless.

• Refrain from touching unfamiliar objects: Yeah, that makes sense for a military context for dealing with IEDs. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that's pretty impractical for farmers and ranchers who on a daily basis need to handle a variety of objects, cowtools, and miscellaneous materials.

• I guess Visitors to Mexico and people who operate near the border are addressed in the same statement regarding the same threat. As though those are groups with the same needs.

• The statement describes an IED attack. Then gives advice on how to avoid random encounters. Perfect advice for an IED, which tend to be sophisticated and planned actions.

Now I'm not a Texan or a rancher. I might be making some redditor observations and talking out of my butt or out of my depth. I probably am at a few points. But some of this seems pretty suspect and strange considering it's by the guy who oversees agriculture in the entire darn state of Texas, where agriculture is a multi-billion dollar industry. The person, who above all else, should understand daily life realities of farmers and how to give practical, specific guidance.