Posted by JDseller on July 24, 2011 at 00:36:34 from (208.126.196.144):
In Reply to: heat and cattle... posted by BCnT on July 23, 2011 at 16:59:14:
The cattle that died up here where mostly feed cattle in feed lots. With land bringing $8000-10000 per acre you can"t afford to pasture good land. Most of the cattle up here are feed in confinement lots. Also you have a pretty dry climate. We have much more rain and snow in the winter. If the cattle are not on concrete then they are up to their bellies in mud. Many of the lost cattle where under shade in sheds. I just was too hot/humid/windless.
Where the rougher ground can"t be farmed there are brood cattle. Not many of them suffered from the high heat. The biggest problem Tuesday was not the heat or the humidity. The wind died down all day. The local weather station showed the high wind speed for the day was 8.5 mph average for the day was 3.5 mph.
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