Never knew this was a thing. Cattle in Arizona and New Mexico must be tougher.


Up To 10,000 Cattle Die As Extreme Heat Bakes Kansas


https://www.dailywire.com/news...me-heat-bakes-kansas


As many as 10,000 cattle have died amid triple-digit temperatures in Kansas, and more livestock could perish over the next several days, according to reports.

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment said at least 2,000 head of cattle succumbed to high heat and humidity as of Tuesday, spokesperson Matthew Lara said. The calculation is based on the number of carcasses the agency has been asked to help dispose of.

“It was essentially a perfect storm,” A.J. Tarpoff, beef extension veterinarian for Kansas State University, told Reuters.

The farming journal AgWeb.com reported the number of dead cows could be as high as 10,000, and more have been reported dead in neighboring Nebraska.

“During these bouts of extreme heat, the cattle can’t dissipate the heat at night because there’s not night cooling and so this perfect storm hits,” Veterinarian Dr. Dan Thomson of Iowa State University told the site. “No different than a tornado hitting a cattle feeding facility or a derecho or whatever and we have these natural disasters.”

Livestock on ranches in the western part of the state, which has 2.4 million cattle, suffered heat stress over the weekend as temperatures rose and cooling winds abated, said Scarlett Hagins, spokesperson for the Kansas Livestock Association. Temperatures reached as high as 108 degrees by Monday, Drew Lerner, president of World Weather, told Reuters. Temperatures could go even higher in the coming days, although officials believe wind and lower humidity levels could offer relief to the herds.

“It’s going to be oppressively hot and stressful for the animals,” Lerner said.

Ranchers are giving more water to their herds and checking on them with greater regularity.

“There’s mitigation strategies that we place, whether its nutrition, strategies for increasing water tank space and decreasing movement of cattle, all these things we’re doing on a day to day basis,” Thomson said.

The cattle deaths come as the ranching industry battles droughts and soaring feed costs linked to a global grain squeeze. In addition, extreme drought has left western and central Kansas parched. Experts project the state’s wheat yield to drop by more than 100 million bushels from last year’s harvest, costing farmers more than $1 billion.

“That is driven primarily from severe drought, particularly in the southwest part of the state, and to a certain degree in the south-central part of the state,” Ernie Minton, dean of Kansas State University’s College of Agriculture, told the Topeka Capital-Journal.

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Man, we’re I a rancher, I’d like to think I’d have a station where the cows could get sprinkled to help cool them. Even if it was just a center pivot that wet them near a tank…poor cows

Here is another article.

Viral Video Appears To Show 100s Of Dead Cattle Hit By Kansas Heatwave

https://www.zerohedge.com/weat...-hit-kansas-heatwave

Makes me concerned about future beef prices.

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Originally posted by wcb6092:
Here is another article.

Viral Video Appears To Show 100s Of Dead Cattle Hit By Kansas Heatwave

https://www.zerohedge.com/weat...-hit-kansas-heatwave

In the very first paragraph of this article is a video of a farm with, according to the video, 3000 dead cows.

If you read the intro to the video: "On a ranch in the southwest of the state of Kansas alone, more than 3,000 cattle suddenly fell dead last weekend. According to the farmers, there is no plausible explanation for this mass extinction."

If you watch the video, the producer of the video states that it was NOT due to heat and that it was not overly hot. They are thinking it was due to "Bovine respiratory disease" and autopsies are pending.

This whole thing sounds like more alarmist bullshit than actual reporting.

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Originally posted by Shaql:
If you watch the video, the producer of the video states that it was NOT due to heat and that it was not overly hot. They are thinking it was due to "Bovine respiratory disease" and autopsies are pending.

This whole thing sounds like more alarmist bullshit than actual reporting.

You're right. We have a lot of cattle farms around where I live and they do just fine in the heat.

This sounds like bullshit reporting with an agenda on global warming. Sounds more like a disease to me.

Sounds like they're softening up the people to accept a %600 price increase in beef prices.

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Originally posted by MikeinNC:
Man, we’re I a rancher, I’d like to think I’d have a station where the cows could get sprinkled to help cool them. Even if it was just a center pivot that wet them near a tank…poor cows

Well the farmers around here have ponds and the cows wade in to cool off. But cattle farming here is no comparison to those ranches. That would take a lot of sprinklers and water... some of those ranches are HUGE and spread out over hundreds or thousands of acres.

10,000 dead is about 0.01% of the cattle population of the US according to my google-ing and math.

I have come to the point in life that I don't believe a f***ing thing the "news" distributes...and sometimes that even includes [*gasp*] Fox News. To me, "the media" is just a propaganda tool for those pushing their Libtarded agendas in this country. I don't believe for one nanosecond that 10,000 head of cattle "all of a sudden" dropped dead due to heat-related issues. Yes...the autopsy results will be very interesting and telling. IF...IF...they're not tainted, that is...

Color me skeptical.....

Different breeds/strains used in different climates

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Originally posted by erj_pilot:
I have come to the point in life that I don't believe a f***ing thing the "news" distributes...and sometimes that even includes [*gasp*] Fox News. To me, "the media" is just a propaganda tool for those pushing their Libtarded agendas in this country. I don't believe for one nanosecond that 10,000 head of cattle "all of a sudden" dropped dead due to heat-related issues. Yes...the autopsy results will be very interesting and telling. IF...IF...they're not tainted, that is...

Color me skeptical.....

The estimates run from hundreds to 2000, to "as many as 10,000."

And the news is in the sensationalism business, because that is what sells views and subscriptions which in turns sells advertising. So, the largest number is what they will report.

That is all it takes to explain reporting the highest number. It doesn't require resorting to some conspiracy. Some media does have a bias, but it doesn't seem that any bias - other than the bias in favor of drawing in viewers - is needed to explain this report.

The rotational/high intensity grazing - which is a fairly recent concept, and vastly better for soil - would cause a problem at high temps.

Will be interesting to see if it was farms which switched to that.

The 'news' in this country is a nefarious entity. We had a 'biased' media two decades ago. What we have now is a group of leftist children trying to influence policy....these folks don't care about the poor dolts reading their scribbles...they see their 'job' as leading the 'rubes' to the 'right' conclusions. They will gladly lose money to influence your vote...look at CNN.

Kinda freaky. I don't know what a typical year looks like or how many animals are lost but between this and the chicken deaths I'm starting to feel the need to stock up on tin foil.

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Originally posted by Ryanp225:
Kinda freaky. I don't know what a typical year looks like or how many animals are lost but between this and the chicken deaths I'm starting to feel the need to stock up on tin foil.

And BBQ sauce!

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Originally posted by bdylan:
They will gladly lose money to influence your vote...look at CNN.

This claim is absurd. Your example is wrong. CNN makes money - it is profitable. You are merely indulging your political biases.

https://www.pewresearch.org/jo...profit-for-cable-tv/

I saw Yellowstone - it's clover from a plane!

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Originally posted by Jelly:
This sounds like bullshit reporting with an agenda on global warming. Sounds more like a disease to me.

Aaah. Thank you for that perspective. It certainly puts the story in a different light.

"Grandma got run over while crossing the street."

"Has to be global warming!"

That was just too subtle for me to have picked up on it. I figure it's a thing that cows do die from heat.