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  • As a cattle person, I need to weigh-in on the “mass cattle die-off” video that’s going around.

    06/20/2022 12:40:36 AM PDT · by surroundedbyblue · 33 replies
    Barnhardt ^ | 06/17/2022 | Ann Barnhardt
    I know that video clip going around looks awful, but let me give some context here. There has been extreme heat and humidity in Western Kansas and cattle have died. This is normal, and 10,000 head total statewide is not a “mass die-off that will cripple the beef supply.” Not even close. There are roughly six million cattle in Kansas. Of those, over two million are “on feed” in confinement feedlots in the western half of the state. In the former United States, something like 125,000 head of cattle are slaughtered per day, Monday through Friday, with a reduced kill...