Always good to remember that farm animals face serious challenges just staying alive. A horrible death I'm sure.
Article:
Heat wave taking toll on crops, farm animals
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Published Tuesday, July 18, 2006
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - Harvey Heier checked his dryland fields and watched helplessly as his corn plants withered under the unrelenting heat wave. The plants along the edge of his fields are brown.
Before the scorching temperatures hit his farm, it looked like he might have a decent corn crop thanks to scattered rains earlier in the season. But now he figures he’s losing bushels off his production every day.
"It is like the death of a loved one," he said.
Fierce heat blanketed the nation from California to the Northeast yesterday. Scores of communities reported temperatures of more than 100. Redding, Calif., about 160 miles north of Sacramento, reached 110 degrees. Parts of Oklahoma hit 109.
Temperatures at Heier’s farm reached 100 or 101; a day earlier it was 106. No relief was forecast until the weekend.
In Kansas, the state Agricultural Statistics Service reported that the high temperatures continued to stress row crops.
Corn condition has deteriorated, with the agency rating 12 percent of the crop as poor to very poor. About 34 percent remained in fair shape, 45 percent was rated as good and 9 percent was rated as excellent.
"Corn lucky enough to be in places that received beneficial rains last week are probably positioned as good as it can be for this time. They are not immediately under as much drought stress," said Jere White, executive director of the Kansas Corn Growers Association.
In California, the United Farm Workers union launched a radio campaign to educate farm workers throughout the state about their right to drinking water, shade and breaks - rules developed after five farm workers died of heat-related deaths last year.
The heat also has taken its toll on livestock. In rural Doniphan County in northeast Kansas, cattleman Jerry Boos lost 32 head of cattle in Sunday’s extreme temperatures. Veterinarians are urging farmers to water pens frequently and keep their livestock under shade coverings to help farm animals beat the heat.
It was the largest loss his family has seen in the 50 years it has raised cattle, said Boos, who operates a 450-head cattle herd.
"I came out Sunday morning, and there they lay," Boos said. "There’s just not enough air moving and too much humidity."
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