Commentary.
In mid-June, a tragic and unforeseeable heat index crisis hit a part of Southwest Kansas, causing several hundred feeder cattle just days from harvest, to succumb to heat stress. The Kansas Livestock Association told one of the reporters that works for me at Brownfield Ag News that temperatures unexpectedly reached record highs from June 10 through the 12th. The temperature jumped from about 90 degrees to 108 degrees. Those elevated temperatures did not fluctuate over those 3 days, with the nighttime temperatures holding in the 70’s, so the cattle did not get a chance to cool down.
Unsubstantiated conspiracy or Mother Nature?
