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As a cattle person, I need to weigh-in on the “mass cattle die-off” video that’s going around.
Barnhardt ^ | 06/17/2022 | Ann Barnhardt

Posted on 06/20/2022 12:40:36 AM PDT by surroundedbyblue

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To: SamAdams76

Sounds like our diet.


21 posted on 06/20/2022 8:07:45 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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To: surroundedbyblue

Cow number one dies. I’m guessing nobody pays much attention. Same for the next few cows. At what number does this become noticeable?

Live cows are valuable, dead ones not so much. How many dead cows does it take to make an economic impact?

Is there anything that can be done to keep them alive? How expensive would this be? Could it be done in real time?


22 posted on 06/20/2022 11:22:30 AM PDT by Tymesup
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To: surroundedbyblue; alstewartfan; Mercat; Adder; Mogger; joma89; Fury; DoodleBob; FarCenter; ...
While Ann is correct that the number is insignificant, its also true that the number that died is not really the issue. Ive not listened to the podcast but the article is not thorough in attempting to find the reason. Again, the number is not really the issue, the reason it occurred and how government is likely to try to use this event is.

When government/media tells you they know the cause then you know for a fact that what they are saying is a partial truth if that factor was involved in the situation at all.

If you are actually interested in the subject then THOUSANDS OF CATTLE SUSPICIOUSLY DIE in Kansas Heat Wave. | WHAT HAPPENED? is a video that goes into many of the theories and why it wasnt likely to be "just heat" and many of the other theories cant explain it as lone causes.

10,000 dead yesterday is a non-event, how government spins this tomorrow is where your focus should be.

23 posted on 06/20/2022 11:30:26 AM PDT by gnarledmaw (Hive minded liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives elect servants.)
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To: surroundedbyblue

“In the former United States,” what is that supposed to mean?


24 posted on 06/20/2022 12:43:33 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: gnarledmaw

Yeah the podcast discusses that. The deaths were related to heat but it happens and is not significant. The government will spin it and use it to justify “global warming” and/or Biden inflation. Ann’s entire point in her podcast is that this, again, happens, always has always will. And will happen again. She wants people to know that this isn’t some rare event so that they don’t get scammed as we have been on so many issues.

The number of cows in Kansas alone is 6 million with several million on feedlots at any given time. 10,000 dead is not significant. Don’t let anyone spin you.


25 posted on 06/20/2022 12:47:43 PM PDT by surroundedbyblue (Proud to be an Infidel & a deplorable. )
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To: Tymesup

The author did a 50-ish minute podcast that explains all that. See the link above.


26 posted on 06/20/2022 12:48:40 PM PDT by surroundedbyblue (Proud to be an Infidel & a deplorable. )
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To: Fungi

Ann Barnhardt, author of this essay, believes that the US was fundamentally changed with the Obama administration and is not the country it once was


27 posted on 06/20/2022 12:49:47 PM PDT by surroundedbyblue (Proud to be an Infidel & a deplorable. )
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To: surroundedbyblue

I hope you take this comment in the spirit it is intended. I’m not sufficiently interested to watch a 50 minute podcast.

If you and the author are satisfied this is not unusual, so am I. It is surprising that this state of affairs makes economic sense.

It would not surprise me if someone made up numbers, hoping it would spark an element of panic.

Freegards


28 posted on 06/20/2022 1:32:58 PM PDT by Tymesup
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To: Gene Eric

Re: 2 - Any more than some of the same doomers were selling it on the original thread, which the OP added “#GreatReset” to the title of their vanity post.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4071390

If you take a look at that thread, some of the posters were FReepers that were dooming it in March/April/May 2000 on the COVID-19 threads and pushing narratives to hose down your mail and groceries to wash off SARS-CoV-2, etc. It was all fear, all the time.


29 posted on 06/20/2022 6:01:52 PM PDT by Fury
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Re: 7 - So, what SHOULD Barnhart said? I guess something you could agree with.

Good grief, people are so intellectually lazy. Cattle, sheep, people die from heart stress. But because it does not have a tinge of conspiracy, it can’t be believed?

Just another example of how much FReeper posting quality has declined.


30 posted on 06/20/2022 6:06:10 PM PDT by Fury
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To: surroundedbyblue

Apologies for misspelling Ann’s last name!


31 posted on 06/20/2022 6:07:14 PM PDT by Fury
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To: Fury

Re: 30 - Excuse me you low-life conservative, stop complaining about fellow FReeper posting quality. After all your movement hasn’t accomplished anything of note for the past 30 years. Please look in the mirror before you criticize others on this board.


32 posted on 06/20/2022 6:15:39 PM PDT by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: Tymesup

“...Is there anything that can be done to keep them alive? How expensive would this be? Could it be done in real time?” [Tymesup, post 22]

Veterinary specialists in southwest Kansas have likened the recent cattle losses to a natural disaster, like a hurricane or an earthquake: minimal to no warning time. It might be theoretically possible to stave it off but people (and animals) caught in the middle haven’t the time.

https://www.southdakotamagazine.com/cattlemans-blizzard

In early October 2013, western South Dakota was hit with an unprecedented early blizzard; two to four feet of wet, heavy snow driven on winds up to 70 miles per hour.

A month later, confirmed livestock deaths stood at 13,977 cattle, 1,257 sheep, 287 horses and 40 bison.

A full accounting was never made; unconfirmed estimates range as high as 27,000 to 28,000 lost head of cattle. Uncertainty remains, as disaster claims are still not fully reconciled.

Many herds in western South Dakota range widely over large expanses of land. Ofttimes, ranchers don’t see their stock for many days at a stretch. Concerning that 2013 storm, it likely would have been infeasible to take any measures in time to save any significant number of animals.

To date, no suggestions have appeared, alleging the storm was a conspiracy.

Unfavorable conditions sometimes come together with little notice, to cause lethal heat stress to cattle. That is likely what happened in southwestern Kansas.


33 posted on 06/20/2022 8:34:25 PM PDT by schurmann
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To: schurmann

Thanks for the info


34 posted on 06/21/2022 9:39:35 AM PDT by Tymesup
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