A heat index crisis hit parts of Southwest Kansas recently causing an unconfirmed number of deaths in fat cattle.
Scarlett Hagins with the Kansas Livestock Association tells Brownfield temperatures unexpectedly reached record highs from June 10-12. “They increased from about 90 degrees to 107 to 108 degrees and that held steady there throughout the weekend. In addition to the increase in temperatures, they also saw an increase in humidity and a significant decrease in wind to basically no wind.”
She says cattle were unable to cool down because overnight lows dropped into the 70s and that caused extreme heat stress.
