{"id":77357,"date":"2017-07-10T11:20:48","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T15:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=77357"},"modified":"2017-07-10T11:21:11","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T15:21:11","slug":"thousands-of-cows-dying-as-heatwave-bakes-southern-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=77357","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of cows dying as heatwave bakes Southern California"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Close to 10,000 animals died during the hot spell.\u00a0The Valley is in the middle of another heat wave.<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"California Heat Wave Hits Dairy Cows Hard\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AS200ImeOZw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>10,000 animals died during the hot spell in South Caliornia as a new heat wave engulfs the region. <strong>That\u2019s so many deaths that the Baker Commodities Rendering Plant in Kerman was overwhelmed.<\/strong> <strong>It could not take on any more cows due to the large number of carcasses and mechanical issues.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The capacity of the plant is about a million pounds a day, and due to the heat losses because to the night time temperatures, incoming to the plant increased about a million and a half pounds.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_42803\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-42803\" src=\"http:\/\/strangesounds.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Heat-wave-kills-thousands-of-cows-south-california-2.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/strangesounds.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Heat-wave-kills-thousands-of-cows-south-california-2.jpg 590w, http:\/\/strangesounds.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Heat-wave-kills-thousands-of-cows-south-california-2-300x199.jpg 300w\" alt=\"Heat wave leads to the deaths of thousands of cows\" width=\"590\" height=\"392\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heat wae kills thousands of cows in South California<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In a special meeting Fresno County Supervisors voted to extend a <strong>local emergency which was declared on June 30th.<\/strong> The decision allows dairy operators to compost or bury carcasses on the farm until Baker Commodities can catch up to the recent spike in cow deaths.<\/p>\n<p>As of last week they had actually <strong>stopped picking up the animals because they had nowhere to physically put them on their property.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What happened during the heat wave is when the night-time temperatures didn\u2019t get below 80 degrees it causes severe hardship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Valley is in the middle of another heat wave, but\u00a0he night-time temperatures in this next heat event should only reach the low to mid 70\u2019s, so the losses are going to be considerably less.<\/p>\n<h3>Dairy cow deaths is normal?<\/h3>\n<p>Wright said local dairies typically see a three-percent loss of animals each year due to the summer heat. But one woman at the special meeting felt the average number was too high.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_42804\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-42804\" src=\"http:\/\/strangesounds.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Heat-wave-kills-thousands-of-cows-south-california.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/strangesounds.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Heat-wave-kills-thousands-of-cows-south-california.png 620w, http:\/\/strangesounds.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Heat-wave-kills-thousands-of-cows-south-california-300x169.png 300w\" alt=\"The Valley is in the middle of another heat wave.\" width=\"620\" height=\"350\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The heat event in Southern California is dramatic for cow owners.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s criminal that 7,500 is a typical loss and 10,000 is a little too much, and now we have to deal with how to deal the carcasses,\u201d said Debby Martsolf, Fresno.<\/p>\n<p>Dairy cow deaths due to the high heat have been reported all around the state.<\/p>\n<p>Baker Commodities is expected to resume full rendering operations on Friday and county officials hope to lift the emergency declaration at the next Board of Supervisors meeting\u2013 that meeting is scheduled for next Tuesday.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_42805\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-42805\" src=\"http:\/\/strangesounds.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Heat-wave-kills-thousands-of-cows-south-california-1.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/strangesounds.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Heat-wave-kills-thousands-of-cows-south-california-1.jpg 500w, http:\/\/strangesounds.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Heat-wave-kills-thousands-of-cows-south-california-1-300x210.jpg 300w, http:\/\/strangesounds.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Heat-wave-kills-thousands-of-cows-south-california-1-100x70.jpg 100w\" alt=\"Heat wave leads to the deaths of thousands of cows\" width=\"500\" height=\"350\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is maye a good solution for cows during heavy heat waves like that currently hitting South California<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The back-up at Baker Commodities is being felt valley-wide. <strong>On Thursday Tulare County Supervisors declared an emergency due to heat-related livestock deaths.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The declaration also allows South Valley dairies to use alternative disposal methods.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/strangesounds.org\/2017\/07\/thousands-of-cows-dying-as-heatwave-bakes-southern-california.html\">http:\/\/strangesounds.org\/2017\/07\/thousands-of-cows-dying-as-heatwave-bakes-southern-california.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Close to 10,000 animals died during the hot spell.\u00a0The Valley is in the middle of another heat wave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}