milk market may go up some

[Hobbyfarmer]

CBS news just ran a news blurb on national news that 40,000 milk cows died in the blizzard in the southwest US. 

Anybody know anything about this?  Stock cattle affected?

[sw363535]

I don't have number data Hobby, but the dairy concentration sw of Amarillo, down to Hobbs got hit hard...

I am sure there was some beef herd damage in that area and east, but the big feedlot populations are mostly north of that area....The wind kept the big storm south.

Hope soneone south of us can fill us in.........

[jrscowfarm]

In a market where their are 9 million cows 40,000 is an extra months culls. Wont impact prices at all. Although my heart goes out to the guys who went through this disaster. On those days it would be great to have an animal activist out telling these guys they are heartless and only thinking of the profit.
As to the stock cows I have no idea. Bigger deal may be the wasted feed and the lost milk production over time. Blizzards can have a long tail

[rawhide]

Dont know anything but what I do know is The welcome to hereford texas sign reads "cattle capital of the world" and there is a dairy between clovis and portales nm that has its own cheese factoy.

[roarintiger1]

No way around it. This is a diaster for those folks out there and my heart goes out to them.    But.......Don't  these folks out there raise cattle like the animal activists want them too?  In the wide open range?  Perhaps if these cattle were in confinement.....like say in a barn for shelter, they wouldn't have died.    Just a thought.  

[sw363535]

Found this comment this morning.............. some decent pictures included

http://dairycarrie.com/2015/12/30/winter-storm-goliath/

Quote from the blog...

Goliath pummeled the area and now early estimates are saying that up to 20,000 cows and calves are dead. Just like Winter Storm Atlas, this story isn’t making the news and most of the people in our country will never know the story behind what will one day be known as the Blizzard of 2015.

[sw363535]

Found this comment this morning.............. some decent pictures included

http://dairycarrie.com/2015/12/30/winter-storm-goliath/

Quote from the blog...

Goliath pummeled the area and now early estimates are saying that up to 20,000 cows and calves are dead. Just like Winter Storm Atlas, this story isn’t making the news and most of the people in our country will never know the story behind what will one day be known as the Blizzard of 2015.

[sw363535]

Found this comment this morning.............. some decent pictures included

http://dairycarrie.com/2015/12/30/winter-storm-goliath/

Quote from the blog...

Goliath pummeled the area and now early estimates are saying that up to 20,000 cows and calves are dead. Just like Winter Storm Atlas, this story isn’t making the news and most of the people in our country will never know the story behind what will one day be known as the Blizzard of 2015.

[sw363535]

I am trying to post some data from this storm and a link to comments ----- not working --- getting ishmealed....

[sw363535]

Comments are at a website called  dairycarrie.com.

Says for sure 20K deaths in their area.