There have been several videos on social media about a significant loss of cattle in Kansas due to extreme heat. During a segment on his broadcast tonight, Tucker Carlson interviews cattleman Steve Stratford about the circumstances and the potential impact to the U.S. beef supply. WATCH:
I remember years ago an ethanol plant killed cattle. Brewing ethanol is changing the carbs to ethanol. The solids are sold as distilers grain and good animal feed. But if it is not sterilized, it causes sickness.
Gotta have the lab test it to make sure it is safe.
The 2 most common feeds for cattle fattening in feed lots is grain, (more corn than milo) and silage.
The silage is hauled into bunker silos. And it is not dried, and breaks down and into sugars and even some alcohol molecules. Cattle like silage more than hay.
The picture here is 1,200 hundred pound cattle, no exercise in the feedlots, and ready for a heart attack/heat stroke.
And why I stopped eating. We’d 2 years ago.
Working on pork
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He stopped eating weed I think…
Eating weed can be problematic. It takes time to take effect and it can be hard to get the dosage right, sometimes resulting in too much and then you act like a big dummy, maybe in front of your mother in law. So I’m told.
You are correct about the silage. It can get pretty ripe. When I was a kid, I worked on a dairy farm, (in the ’60’s) and I would have to climb up in the silo ( we had the upright cylinder type) and fork down enough silage to feed 40 dairy cows while we were milking them. Breathing in that odor could almost make you drunk. The cows did love it though. We milked twice a day, 4 am and 4 pm. It was hard work.
Farmers sometimes died in those silos — passed out and never woke up.
True. I grew up on a dairy farm. We had 3 types of silos. A couple old wood ones, a couple of concrete slab and 2 newer Harvestores (the blue ones). The latter can have very low levels of oxygen inside. I could go inside the wood silos (lost the tip of my pinky in one) but we were told we wouldn’t survive long inside the Harvestores. They’re airtight and I believe much of the O2 that is inside is consumed during fermentation of the silage.
You brought some memories of working on my Uncle’s dairy farm …yup up early milking, taking the cows to pasture and then bringing them back for a night milking. Bucking bales of hay in between. I will always remember the smell of the silos…
There are a lot of fungus type diseases that can grow in grain and silage.
There is a suggestion that Moses’ plagues in Egypt sparked a famine. When the Egyptians opened one of their grain storehouses it was full of contaminated grain. When the Egyptians gave out the grain to Egyptians, they all go sick. But, the Israelites had just sacrified lambs and to cover their doors with blood, so they ate lamb instead.
During times of famine, it was Egyptian custom to give the 1st born son a double measure of whatever food was available. Since they ate a double measure of contaminated grain, they died.
Nice story, but I’ll bet the Egyptians had centuries of experience in how to store grain safely, and to know when grain taken out of a silo was unsafe.
Michael Lavon Robinson?
The 10th plague in the Bible might have had mycotoxins in the grain.
Jonathan Garley and Charles Engles saved Walnut Grove from contanimated grain one episode.
That’s Jonathon GarVey and Charles Ingalls. The grain was “contaminated” with rats carrying fleas that gave everyone typhus. The grain (corn) itself wasn’t contaminated.
Glad to know I am not the only one who recalled the episode (sort of :)) Have a blessed day!
Thanks, but I’ll take the Biblical version of this story.
This makes more sense than the heat killing them. Either the rancher was in on it or someone else caused their death thru poisoning. It will be telling to see if the rancher has them tested or not.
Yes, it is weird.
It has happened before, 1885 1886 an 1887 100’s of thousands died. The cause drought first and then winter blizzards.Cows need tall grass, if you look at the pictures the grass is very short, no rain.
There are 94 million cows in America. World wide around 1.5 billion.
The farmer didn’t seem to think this was suspicious – just one of those things that happen like blizzards that wipe out cattle.
I don’t know anything about farming but I thought that the farmers would make sure the cattle are near water where they can cool off. Why not have water tanker trucks that can hose down the cattle during extreme heat? This would save their lives. According to the story the cattle are $2000 a head and farmers have thousands so you think they would go to extreme measures to keep the cattle alive.
Good question.
That’s the opinion of one alleged cattle rancher, selected by Fox from thousands. Are we witnessing an operation that supports an Agenda, or plain, non political truth?
Tucker is usually reliable but still, it’s Fox News, known liars and deceivers when management decides to support a globalists agenda.
Treating the preventable death of 10,000 cattle as inconsequential is an callous affront to our Lord whose grace is demonstrated in His Divine Provision. Every beast’s life has purpose. The same applies to the evil slaughter of millions of chickens for fear of bird flu. This is sick and evil.
When it smells like a skunk
Trusting fix news is a fool’s errand.
So is trusting CNN
I have read on the net that the water supply was poisoned. What is the truth?
Don’t know, Rosey. You can be sure if the deaths were deliberate, the Fake News will publish whatever false narratives they’re told to publish by the Fourth Branch of government.
Truth will only be revealed by a courageous whistleblower who provides evidence to support their claims. I won’t hold my breath waiting for it, since they’re already destroying the dead animals and making autopsies far more difficult.
Right on, GB; Probably there are a lot of us who suspect nefariousness, who’ve been called conspiracy theorists on occasion, but turned out to be right, although at variance with the “narrative.”
They’ll just blame it on global warming and call it a day.
Agreed. Add to the evil murderous Satanic cultists killing off food critters the intentional burning to death of hundreds of thousands of caged laying hens. That is brutal to a next level.
I got the impression that Tucker did not go along with his guest and that he thinks something is up. Maybe he, or one of his staff, made a mistake in the selection of this person to give his opinion.
Quite possibly true. The alleged “expert” just brushed off the incident as inconsequential like it happens often. A judicious and focused search of the internet should reveal whether that implied excuse is true or bovine manure.
That was not a good guest.
As a former rancher, Tucker’s guest is spot on.
slaughter ready cattle in a feedlot are susceptable to heat stress and need the evening to cool off. Feedlots with 20 or 30 thousand head capacity can in no way provide sprinklers for all animals.
Oh I definitely believe it’s an agenda. Bill Gates? Synthetic meat anyone?
You’ll own nothing and eat bugs and be happy.
And CNN is known to lie as well
You are correct. But we know he is a real rancher, because of his hat. 🙄
This looks like mass poisoning, whether from the feed or the water, we can’t know.
I’m openly suspicious that something else killed all those cattle. Cattle are routinely raised in Arizona, New Mexico, Egypt, and other places that are hotter than this. And they say that the cattle’s bodies were found at strange angles as though they had suffered some kind of seizure. There are any number of reasons for a mass die-off of a herd, not necessarily foul play. But I really don’t think it was [entirely …] the heat. To me that’s the least probable root-cause. They were all apparently in the same pasture or enclosure and apparently they all died. “Heat” doesn’t do that. But, adulterated feed (for example) very well might. And as I said, it is not necessarily foul play. Of course they now need to do forensic investigation to find out what did happen, and fix it.
So then they will say “Mad Cow Disease” and we must kill off all cattle on the planet – you know, like we watched them cull the chickens…
Friend I grew up with is a farmer’s wife/cattle rancher in Alabama. She is on our side, politically. She said this was simply very hot, very quickly. Nothing nefarious at all.
All dying at the same time from heat makes no sense. The calves, sickly, and weaker cattle would succumb first but it takes longer for cattle in good condition to just drop dead.
Given this “government,” I find her explanation fatuous at best. It’s beyond obvious that they are purposely and systematically destroying our food supply.
My exact question too!!
In my experience black cattle can’t take the heat as well as other breeds this could go along with the feed they were fed also.
Maybe their water supply?
RACIST !
Haven’t farmers been paid to NOT farm their land? Or fined if they DID farm their land?
Perhaps the government is applying the same tactics to ranchers and cattle now?
I’d love to see someone chase cattle to death trying to save them with a water truck… I’m not picking on you here it’s just, like politics, people have no idea and then along comes the media giving out very poor information.
The cows in the picture are not anywhere near $2k in value. That’s for government kickback and insurance claims.
The fact we keep having these massive die offs in every variety of livestock isn’t a surprise… But that’s a awkward conversation.
There is no where NEAR enough usable land to keep doing what we’re doing. No shade trees, no ponds, over grazed baron land in the wrong climate zones, breeds selected for size over tolerance. Mostly due to limited land access (you can’t make more acreage) and greed. You can run that way but eventually mommy nature is going to catch you… Ta-da!
To compare my experience…
100 degrees isn’t a heatwave. We were 114 mid day yesterday in the sun and 98% humidity, August we’ll be +130. Our cows don’t mind and we don’t worry about it. But we’re also running %50 less head per acre than *recommended*.
That’s because I learned to farm old school, 100% sustainable without intervention. Which isn’t about hippie environmentalism… It’s about basic common sense in land usage and operating 100% without outside sourcing. (Feed grain, medication etc) What that is really saying is, we don’t participate in government kickback programs or expected to be paid for stupidity.
I also don’t have a fleet of $110k trucks and $250k tractors. Neither did my grandparents, we were all actual CONSERVATIVES.
I also don’t care if you starve to death… And that’s really what your asking for in your questions. But we’ll get to that in a minute.
Cattle like most Ag in the US is pushing unsustainable farming and EXTREME limits that now seem normal. We do this to keep feeding over population with government parachutes when it blows up. We push every boundary of food production trying to feed far too many fat people (+45% obesity) in this country and too many mouths in the world.
Even what today is described as “sustainable” isn’t remotely sustainable.
On top of that we STILL keep bringing in more and more… More livestock imports and more mouths to feed.
It’s REALLY unpopular to say but there’s your overall problem with Ag and everything else is a underlying symptom. From a 10,000 foot view, thats the root of many of our problems.
So, irresponsible farming is rewarded to push limits, which it turn pushes the lie that we can keep doing what we do. Bill Gates isn’t nearly the lunatic he appears to be on the subject of 50% population reduction… Broken clock theory is what it is.
American exceptionalisum has always been delusional. And I am just an idiot with a keyboard.
I agree with your last sentence.
Most idiots would.
Not “always been delusional,” only in recent decades.
The fact that you believe anywhere in the US has an overpopulation problem, or even any places outside of overcrowded cities in Asia, means you might just be an idiot with a keyboard. Defending Ghoul Gates means you drank the kool aid.
So then enlighten us with your experience, or did you just have the ad hominem to toss about?
You City folk have all these great ideas….you have no idea how a feedlot setup works you can’t just drive in with water tankers and have cattle come running saying “cool me off” you’ll stress them out more because they’ll run away from something they’re not used to
Facts don’t cease to exist when they are ignored, but most prefer to be lied to.
The majority here are just smart enough to know that steak doesn’t come from a grocery store… Therefore they are experts.
I was wondering the same thing. I’ve seen pastures in my area with misters. It’s only a light spray of water. But it helps cool the animals down.
The wife and I crossed Southern Kansas from West to East last month and just about every county had a large feed lot full of cattle that would need extra water in the heat.
I found this interesting article online about how to prevent heat stress in cattle. According to this article cattle can withstand winter temperatures of -37C but in the summer temperatures over 23C (73 F) begin to present a problem. The article stress the importance of adequate shade. Clean fresh water and even sprinklers to reduce their temperature. From the pictures I saw of the dead cattle none of that could be seen. I don’t understand why the farm hands didn’t take action when they saw the temperature going over a 100 F.
A BIG QUESTION to ask is was this a corporate owned farm ? Owned by Bill Gates or Black Rocks Larry Fink perhaps? I can’t imagine a family owned farm allowing this to happen to their cattle.
https://cdn.dal.ca/content/dam/dalhousie/pdf/faculty/agriculture/oacc/en/livestock/Welfare/Heat_stress_ruminants.pdf
In 1995, lack of shade trees in the Midwest was noted as a contributing cause for why so many cattle + chickens died during that heat wave.
The sharp spike in human deaths in places like Chicago was also big news back then.
I’m surprised so few people alive back then remember it today…
Every chicken house I have (small flocks) is under a tree and has a box fan running 24/7 in the summer. The chooks have access to BUCKETS of cold water that I put our before dawn every day.
Love your animals, folks. Love them like family. They feed you.
Mine are in”tractors” that move to new grass daily with a thick silver tarp over top. And significantly fewer hens per sq ft than recommended
From the fingers of a cattle rancher with several variations of ruminants, that article is complete BS…
Sounds like Bill Gates is also busy messing with the weather. He hates cows.
Dead cows give off a lot of methane as they rot.
A $2000 food animal deserves to have $10 worth of sunshade.
As I listened to the interview, which I’m now CERTAIN was edited, I realized that beef ranchers are having great difficulty making a profit.
I recalled Sundance’s article from the past that educated us about the purposeful destruction of true free markets, and the control of commodities by multinationals. Direct reference to THAT was, I’ll bet you a good steak, edited out by the broadcaster.
I disagree. I think Tucker did also. He has been speaking out about all the suspicious happenings surrounding our food supply. Frankly, I did not trust what that rancher was saying – he seemed sort of “disconnected” about the whole subject.
I CAUGHT that- he “seemed distracted”. i interpreted his distracted state as being reflective of trying to pick his words very carefully. I think that there are narrative masters at FOX who pre-caution guests as to what language must be avoided, during the taping of the show.
JBS controls most of the meat packing and that is a problem for the ranchers. I think he just wanted to make his point
Antifa didn’t do all the damage. They are not as organized as the FBI. That’s right I said it!!
I agree.
Actually they aren’t organized hierarchically so there’s nothing to trace. They provide comic relief/distraction for those, “Look! Squirrel!” moments from the FBI’s playbook for sowing chaos and providing impetus to strike down the second amendment. It has been said already, whenever tyrants plot their takeover, job one is to disarm the general public so they can’t fight back when they send in the army to subjugate them, it’s a trick that is old as the hills and has NOTHING whatsoever to do with “public safety.”
A 1200 lb steer, ½ inch fat, average muscling, yields a 750 pound carcass. The 750 pound carcass yields approximately: 490 pounds boneless trimmed beef. 10,000 steer x 490 lbs of useable beef = 4.9 MILLION pounds of useable beef. Is that farmer telling me that volume would not impact the market?
I would chalk that up as likely comments establishing some market effect not making it passed the editing.
That’s 4 ounces of beef per US citizen. One small hamburger.
But not all citizens eat beef so it’s actually more.
I’ll eat the vegans’ and pescatarians’ portions. Yum. Beef. It’s what’s for dinner!
The rancher stated impacts were more likely to be local than global.
No, not at the volume of product this industry works at …
While the amount in and of itself might be insignificant to the overall market, a kill like that, particularly now at times of supply chain difficulties and high prices, can certainly send ripples through the market and also send a message to any who are considering the alternate economy, which is certainly on the table for beef producers these days.
While we may only think of the kill as product lost, what it takes to get a cow to the finished product must also be considered a loss, particularly at a time when shortages and high prices exist in multiple raw material and commodity chains that feed the beef industry.
Farmers usually won’t minimize or explain away such realities. Paid spokespeople expert in word salad, more likely. IMO, follow the money. Who’s behind the interview and the person interviewed?
I’m not a farmer so this may be a stupid comment…
How come Texas and Oklahoma cows haven’t been the subject of this news every year?
Because it’s all BS. Something was done to these cows. If I was the farmer- I’m having autopsies performed on a certain number of cattle. I bet the results would be interesting. I wouldn’t let the government do it…I would use a 3rd party firm not associated with government work.
I would do an autopsy of a certain % of these cows. These cows did not die from the heat. Sorry. Hmmm….food processors catching on fire and now this….all while leftists threaten SCOTUS Justices, illegally protest outside their houses, threaten their neighbors, and pro-life pregnancy crisis centers and churches are being vandalized and firebombed.
AG Garland is nowhere to be seen or heard. FBI….still harassing Jan 6er’s and moms.
I’m sorry but I would put my money on the government is behind many of these events. Conspiracy, maybe. But prove me wrong.
Probably the most likely cause in my view is some adulteration of their food supply – which does not necessarily imply foul play. I do not think that it was simply “the heat.” If a veterinarian opens one of them up and does lab tests he might get a clue, and I expect that someone will do just that.
The way we’ve seen this work in the past is that an investigation reveals the true cause/ effect (the science) but that get’s covered up until a whistleblower sneaks it out to the public where it gets debunked by the narrative keepers. Every time. We live in a “society” that abhors the truth at the top and craves it like addicts at the bottom. God sees all this, by the way.
How did these cattle die EXACTLY.
We know we are being lied to. Once again, the only way we will learn the truth is true investigative journalists from We the People.
Every government agency and mainstream media outlet has zero credibility.
hmm, wonder if the owner had insurance on these cattle? Leave the cattle exposed in the heat with no water for a day or two, cattle die tragically from natural disaster (heat wave or whatever), and then file an insurance claim? Just throwing out conspiracy theories…
Yes, there is usually insurance to cover catastrophic losses. Both crops and feed-animals are insured against situations like this.
That is exactly what I have been thinking. Is it cheaper for them to have an “accident” or continue feeding them at the outrageous feed costs, then I also have to trnasport them to the slaughterhouse at outrageous gas prices? In other words, cut my losses now.
Just took a trip from east to west this past week. Passed by numerous huge feedlots through Kansas and Nebraska… Temp was greater than 90 def F the entire way, no different from a similar trip a couple years ago. I saw no water troughs in those feed lots, but it does cools down a lot at night.
This guy indicated the event was not consequential to the food supply and he instead used the opportunity to speak to complain about farmer economics. He seemed to be saying prices are going up dramatically but farmers are not getting their fair share. Hard to sympathize…
No responsible cattle rancher with an ounce of integrity would ever allow this catastrophe to happen to his livestock. It is inhumane and evil! Ergo, I suspect nefarious action by the US government criminal cartel. After the past 2+ years how could we NOT suspect foul play?!
The ‘rancher’ Tucker interviewed seemed awfully callous about this disaster.
When cattle are caught in the open in a heavy snowfall helicopters are used to drop bales of hay.
All those bloated steers will end up in the grocery stores as hamburger….and dog food.
The video clip I saw showed all black Angus…they absordb the heat. In a feed lot, not much room to mill around and dissipate the heat, difficult to get to the watering tanks because they are crowded like sardines.
Shade cloth over the pens would help.
While “bizarre” things like this routinely happen to cattle and the loss of 10K heads of cattle is a drop in the bucket for the US overall.
I doubt many understand how much cattle the US ranchers have or the capacity of cattle the US can have. I believe the US has between 90-100 million cattle and the US could ramp that up to 200 million quite easily (the amount is regulated for market price stability). So a 10K loss is easily replaceable.
Nonetheless, it is sad what happened to these cattle in Kansas.
High temps, including high overnight temps and sudden temp swings have long been an issue in the irrigated desert where both dairies and beef operations have proliferated.
The one I’m most familiar with has a feedlot that covers around 800 acres and they say they finish around a quarter million head of cattle a year. To give an idea of size, a square mile, known as a ‘section’, is 640 acres.
A combination of artificial shade (the whole west side is largely treeless except for what humans have planted), fans, misting systems and personal inspections the old way by cowboys riding the lot daily help keep the cows on track. Especially right now, but generally always, each cow is a tremendous investment of time, labor and money. Every last one of them.
Anyway, here’s an aerial view:
I won’t speculate about what’s going on in Kansas but locally can’t recall there ever being a similar event in the dairy or beef industry and that goes back to the 60’s. Anything is possible.
Cows die, sure, I lived downwind on stormy days from the rendering plant and saw the cow legs sticking up out of the trucks headed there daily and the cows stacked against the gate in the mornings from the overnight die-off. Some here, some there, never anything en-masse. California’s cow operations are massive. Industrial. Suspicious cat remains suspicious and watchful.
Like you, speculation aside, if 10,000 head of cattle dying, all at one time, from the heat were common, this conversation would not be happening.
For me, it is that simple.
I tell people my ponds aren’t big enough to raise angus cattle. In the summer the angus cattle are in the pond by 9:00 while the Brahman crosses are still grazing.
According to the pictures, these cattle were all close to finished for butchering and in one place. It may be as simple as they were being pushed to finish on too hot of feed (high protein) which will raise their temperature.
But 10,000? All at the same time 10,000 beef cows were pushed to finish on a too day?
URGENT: Farmers Warn Food Catastrophe Imminent
By Man in America
Published June 15, 2022
https://rumble.com/v18jqu1-urgent-farmers-warn-food-catastrophe-imminent.html
There is something fishy with this cattle “Suddenly” dying. Yea the heatwave caused it, yeah right…
They died to push the glow-bull warming B.S.
Any necropsies done on these cattle that are being said to die of “Heat”?? If so, where are the vetinary pathologists’ reports? If NOT DONE, WHY NOT?
Somehow, I think there’s more to this than just heat prostration. I think there’s a secret combination of factors which the summer heat is a part of it and at the bottom line is beyond the cattlemen, do everything they possibly can do to cause chaos in the markets, in the food supply… burn it all down! It may have come on sooner than they wanted it to, but when the chips are down, desperate moves are called for. This stinks to high heaven of globalist manipulation and grand standing. They may be in a panic, and they go down, but they’re going to punish as many of us as possible on the way.
Personally, I’m not a farmer. That said, I have farm land, where half of it is pasture land running cattle (leased to in-law family). Most of my in-laws (aunts and uncles) made their living on cotton and cattle. I was raised watching my grandfather run cattle for my uncle. The most common cow I’ve seen of these decades is the Black Angus.
This is all in Oklahoma and Texas, where the summers are generally regarded as being some temperature between the sun’s surface and hell.
Lots of black cattle are run. We don’t have extensive cattle herd die-offs as a common occurrence in these states, and I don’t recall ever seeing one in well-managed herds.
Today, though, cattle feed is getting priced through the roof. Farmers are selling their herds, getting what they can at auction. Processing plants are “mysteriously” getting hit with fires and explosions.
Don’t tell me this is the heat. If this had happened in Texas, the state Vet Medical Diagnostic Lab would be all over this.
It may be a mundane reason these cattle died; it may not. It certainly isn’t just “triple-digit heat”, as Texas and Oklahoma are well-known for this (and higher) heat levels in the summer. I have strong suspicions something else must be in play.
Poison? Drone-dispersed disease (botulism)? Other form of terrorist attack?
We won’t know unless and until someone chokes down the expense to run the necropsies, pathologies, and toxicology to find out.
“This is all in Oklahoma and Texas, where the summers are generally regarded as being some temperature between the sun’s surface and hell.”
It’s a wet heat!
Bullshit.
mRNA drug deaths?
I’m realizing in the comments here that cattle is a lot like politics…
People know nothing, but have many lofty ideas that are that translate into complete ignorance… and that really puts perspective on our current state of affairs in this country.
Before you get into a hissy fit, hear me out because I’m going to say several other “mean” things before getting to my point.
Sorry in advance, common sense is like that!
The main problem with cattle is the same problem with all other agriculture (and MANY other things) in the US, world. We’re highly over populated, feeding other countries for profit and pretending not to notice.
These cattle are not dead because it was 98 degrees. They are dead because we keep livestock in places we shouldn’t and under conditions that are NOT realistic… It wasn’t the heat.
When it goes wrong, the government pays these guys to keep doing it.
I’m a 3rd generation farmer, yesterday it was 98 degrees with 90 humidity. In the sun was 115, by August it will be 135+. Yet none of my cattle or other ruminates are dead, they don’t even care.
Our farm doesn’t have feed issues, we don’t have heat stroke issues, we don’t have issues with disease and we rarely have issues with over all health.
We are more or less 100% self sustaining with very very minimal outside support (feed, medication, fuel, water, etc). We do this not because we’re some type of tree hugging hippies, I’ll burn a pile of tires on earth day just to spite you! We do this because we’re shockingly… conservative!!!
We do things the old way, like keep %50 less head per acre than currently “recommended”. I don’t depend on the government to cover our losses. I don’t buy into their free money giveaways, I don’t have a fleet of $120k trucks or a fleet of $250k tractors while crying “poor”.
The issue is, if everyone else did things like we do, you’d all starve to death and that is the reality no one wants to hear or accept.
Just like of you quit printing funny money via the reserve… We’d all starve for the same reasons. I understand they perfectly, and I still call for ending the fed!
You can pump more oil, you can strip more fertilizer, you can medicate, irrigate, GIS, industrialize, etc, etc, etc… But you can not create more land. Just like you can not keep cattle in places that are not suitable just because grass grows well some seasons. Or keep breeds there that are not capable of surviving the climate, but make for good butchering.
Just like you can’t feed people via actual sustainable farming. Everything must be pushed to the extreme!!!
So you will keep seeing what we have been seeing over the past 40+ years. Massive die offs of livestock of all varieties. But, never mind the 45% obesity rate and obvious population densities, American exceptionalisum rules the day, lofty unrealistic ideas it is.
We should plant more trees.. that the cattle will kill. Or we should dig more ponds, that will spread more disease… It’s acres per head dummies!!!
Someone here recommend that farmers chase down their cows with water trucks to spray them for cooling… Never mind that they are pray animals… I’d get Congress to pass another grant program and go with that idea, seems solid.
Hot and possibly toxic algae in the water tank. Extreme heat and still water will sometimes grow deadly algae. See it more often in the southwest. Whole herds of cattle and elk die. If you’re in Kansas I here it’s rare you probably wouldn’t be on the lookout and taking precautions.
I’m wondering if this wasn’t so much an accident but incompetence?
It sounds like they were in a feed lot (or lots). If they were short workers, or had inexperienced ones a bunch of little mistakes could add up to a catastrophic event.
Over the past 2 1/2 years with lockdowns long time workers just retired because they were either pushed out or didn’t want to deal with the BS. Replacements often weren’t very good, or if they were good didn’t last because they found a better job.
Black Angus in a hot state? No shelter, no visible water? All piled up in neat piles – they must have died somewhere else. Seems that lots of factors came into play to kill those cattle.
All I see is a looped video segment with around 200 cattle and an “assistant manager”. Where’s the owner? Who did the video? Where’s the evidence? Whole thing is stupid…
I have a small cattle farm that my husband and I run. We supply clean beef @ 5.00 a pound, you pay the processor fee. We have plenty of shade and Creek water for our herd of 25. During harsh weather we continually check them. Something is very wrong with the loss of those cattle. Bill Gates plans on having our country be beef free by 2024. He wants to decimate the cattle farms.
Most of us here have a profound distrust of our Federal and State government, but not everything is a conspiracy, shit does happen!
This is possible but has to be a result of some management issues. If you’ve ever seen hot cattle you know they are hot. Hard breathing tounge hanging out. In obvious stress. I can’t believe someone didn’t see what was happening and act to get those cattle cooled off.
I watched Tucker last nite and when first starting interviewing the cattleman, Tucker asked the cattleman if he thought
the cattle were poisoned. I see it has been edited. Poisoned cattle came to my mind too before Tucker mentioned it.
Never underestimate evil. This Stalinist gov killed ten thousand people with poison during prohibition.
Wholesome beef I disagree when there is no lable of origin and cattle from other counties can be mixed in late. Industrialized meat is not wholesome meat. I only purchase from local producers that are pastured raised. No hormones, no corn, no antibiotics and grass fed and finished. I feel for the families who rely on the big packers and the loss of income
Either it has never been hot in kansas, or farmers are turning into climate cultists. Temp records say this has happened before with no wholesale cattle deaths. So we have ignorant farmers, or smart farmers killing their cows, and getting zuckerbucks,or bill gates dollars, or government operatives taking a break from touching food processing plants to poisoning cattle?
Poisoned somehow. They all died at once. Other causes have too many variabilities.
They can help the farmers with the fertilizer crisis by sending the dead ones to be made into fertilizer. We do still have plants in the US that make dead animals into it. I know the one is still open in Plymouth IN.
I will buy my meat from local farmers before I buy it from China!!! They have no health regulations over there. And right now I don’t trust them to poison us in our food.
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