The entire thing is a Yuge building. All the cows are in there. The place went up like a roman candle. Fire consumed the building so fast no cows could get out.
The are using technologies today forced on them by societal fears of cow farts. Milk didnt used to be this hard. Havent heard a cause. No one seems interested despite all the rag heads and illegal meskins living in and transiting the area
My local ranchers are blaming the explosion on a large methane holding pond.
Keep in mind that this “building” covered 50 acres - this is not my old pole barn.
Speculation is that most of the cattle were killed in the stampede to get away from the fire. Second opinion centers on the type of explosion - a fuel air mixture - that suffocated the dairy cows.
Either way, there isn’t a national news reporter that would travel to AMA for any reason.
And the sheriffs are controlling traffic pretty tight, to keep the idiots away.
Mtn is right on the money. The majority of these mishaps are due to guberment regulations. They have put the little guy out of business with expenses, created more pollution and hired too many illegals who don’t pay attention to details.
I grew up on a dairy farm. We milked 35 or so head. Yes there was a lot of poop laying around that was scooped up for fertilizer on our corn. That was 60 yrs ago.
Thanks for reminding us of that. Methane is flammable... possibly a convenient thing to someone evil enough to commit a Biblically huge act of arson, like the insane arsonist in The Stand.
Or just a plain ol' accident, like... say, an overloaded electrical circuit. We'll never know.
One human being and 18,000 dairy cows, just like that.