A blizzard that hit parts of Texas late in 2015 has caused significant losses to the dairy industry, including the loss of 40,000 dairy cattle, according to an article in AgWeb on December 31. In addition to the deaths of many cattle in the frigid and stormy conditions, hundreds of truckloads of milk had to be dumped because tankers could not get to the farms to pick up the milk.
Cattle that were not milked during the storm also have started to dry up and will produce less milk in the next few months, further reducing yields and profits. You can read more about this at CNN Money here.
So many cattle wandered off during the storm that farmers have turned to Facebook to help round up the lost herds, according to a story on Beef Today in Ag Web. According to the story, New Mexico dairy farmer Andle van der Ploeg says the drifts were so high at his dairy that the heifers just walked out of their pens.
