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18,000 cow killed in TX

It’ll be interesting to see how this affects the prices of certain milk brands. Some brands use dairy co-ops from across the nation for their product (such as Kemps). Shouldn’t affect Anderson Erickson products here in Iowa as they use diaries in the state.
 
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GMackey32 said:
It’ll be interesting to see how this affects the prices of certain milk brands. Some brands use dairy co-ops from across the nation for their product (such as Kemps). Shouldn’t affect Anderson Erickson products here in Iowa as they use diaries in the state.
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A city raised Iowan I am floored to read 18,000 dairy cows on a single farm.

Then reading the article further, it will probably have some impact on price of milk, but in Texas alone there are over 600k dairy cows. So this fire only killed 3% of Texas' dairy production.
 
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Lots of dairies in the panhandle. I've actually been through that area and some of those dairies are huge! With a town called Hereford just up the road, one would think it would be more feedlots around.
 
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isucy86 said:
A city raised Iowan I am floored to read 18,000 dairy cows on a single farm.

Then reading the article further, it will probably have some impact on price of milk, but in Texas alone there are over 600k dairy cows. So this fire only killed 3% of Texas' dairy production.
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That little strip cutting from TX to KS roughly north of Lubbock to Liberal has a ton of cattle, mostly Jersey. If you zoom in on google maps you can probably see the operations. Total US numbers are typically 9-10 million so it may impact locally/wherever their milk goes as Gmackey notes but not likely to impact broadly.

And it's large but not the largest. There's at least a handful of 30k single sites - closer to 75-100k when you combine sites. And you can't spit in Tulare/Fresno/Kings county CA without hitting a 5-10k dairy.
 
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cycloner29 said:
Lots of dairies in the panhandle. I've actually been through that area and some of those dairies are huge! With a town called Hereford just up the road, one would think it would be more feedlots around.
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There's both. In fact, lot of dairies in that region (and honestly expanding through the US) will segment lower performing milk genetics to a beef pipeline.
 
isucy86 said:
A city raised Iowan I am floored to read 18,000 dairy cows on a single farm.

Then reading the article further, it will probably have some impact on price of milk, but in Texas alone there are over 600k dairy cows. So this fire only killed 3% of Texas' dairy production.
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Someone on here knows more than I do, but historically, haven't we usually had an excess supply of milk?
 
isucy86 said:
A city raised Iowan I am floored to read 18,000 dairy cows on a single farm.

Then reading the article further, it will probably have some impact on price of milk, but in Texas alone there are over 600k dairy cows. So this fire only killed 3% of Texas' dairy production.
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Corporations will still use this tragedy to inflate the price. Look at how egg prices jumped after the avian flu killed flocks of birds and then it came out egg companies inflated their prices so much, they ended up with record profits.
 
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GMackey32 said:
It’ll be interesting to see how this affects the prices of certain milk brands. Some brands use dairy co-ops from across the nation for their product (such as Kemps). Shouldn’t affect Anderson Erickson products here in Iowa as they use diaries in the state.
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My gut feel is this dairy primarily went to cheese production. Can't find anything specific for that dairy but Hilmar and a couple other processors have a large presence in the panhandle plus they mention at least some Jersey cattle.
 
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