Heat Stress Kills Estimated 10,000 Head of Kansas Feedlot Cattle

The current heat wave blazing through Kansas feedlots has killed an estimated 10,000 head of fat cattle.

Final death numbers continue to come in, but that early estimate was shared with DTN by livestock experts, who put the geographical center point for those deaths at Ulysses, Kansas.

DTN calls to feedlots in the area and to ranchers whose branded animals were seen in some privately shared photos of dead cattle were not immediately returned.

What is known is that leading up to these heartbreaking losses, temperatures in the area were over 100 degrees Fahrenheit, there was humidity, and there was little to no wind to help cool the animals. Temperature readings reported for Ulysses began to exceed the 100-degree mark on June 11. By June 13, the high temperature was reported at 104 degrees, with humidity levels ranging from 18% to 35%. Temperature and humidity levels began to break some on June 14. Just a few days prior to the heat setting in, highs had been in the 80s.

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Lucy
Lucy
2 years ago

Another planned geoengineered event to take us down.

Stan Sylvester
Stan Sylvester
2 years ago
Reply to  Lucy

Lucy,
BOOM! Some of the best writers/sites on the alt media shrug their shoulders at the suggestion of weather warfare, climate manipulation, [not climate change!] and solar radiation management. To learn more, the best I know is geoengineeringwatch.org with Dane Wigington

tom finley
tom finley
2 years ago
Reply to  Stan Sylvester

New information says it was algae in the water.

tom finley
tom finley
2 years ago

Harp, is there tool, we know it’s location.

Thomas Angle
Thomas Angle
2 years ago
Reply to  tom finley

There are a lot of tools that need to be taken out of service.

tom finley
tom finley
2 years ago
Reply to  Thomas Angle

You bet Thomas.

Madam DeFarge
Madam DeFarge
2 years ago

Guess it never got hot in kansas before, so the folks there don’t know how to care for cattle. What double dumbasses.

Otis D
Otis D
2 years ago
Reply to  Madam DeFarge

you’re obviously an expert and i guess you could do it better.

and people wonder why we can’t unite and fight the common enemy.

Irod Folsom
Irod Folsom
2 years ago

B.S No pun intended! Seen cows take allot hotter. starting to wonder whos saying what where!

Jane
Jane
2 years ago

The aquifer is also drying up. It’s more than just the drought.
https://youtu.be/2PNzI4ifLww

Jane
Jane
2 years ago

Let us not forget the “build back better devils” built hundreds of thousands of homes in the Southwest.