18,000 cows were killed in an explosion at a dairy farm

Approximately 18,000 cows were killed, and one person was critically injured, in an explosion at a dairy farm in the Texas Panhandle on Monday.

The Castro County Sheriff’s Office confirmed with Fox News Digital that the cows were in a holding area before being brought in for milking when the blast occurred at the Southfork Dairy Farm in Dimmitt.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/texas-dairy-explosion-leaves-least-18000-cattle-dead-person-critically-injured

elsewhere, 1911¤trp wrote:

I don't believe these are accidents. Train derailments. Toxic spills and burns. Dairy plants and farms exploding. All in RED areas. No way this is coincidence. Everyone is so worried about "The Grid" going down, meanwhile, the left, China, Bill Gates and others are destroying transportation, infrastructure and farming.

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More than 18,000 cattle killed in Texas dairy farm explosion
The fire at Southfork Dairy Farm in Dimmitt, which critically injured one worker, was the deadliest barn fire on record.
By Sarah Bahari | Dallas Morning News
10:02 AM on Apr 13, 2023 CDT



A fiery explosion in the Texas Panhandle killed more than 18,000 cattle and critically injured one worker in what is being described as the deadliest barn fire for cattle on record.

Fire tore through the holding pens of Southfork Dairy Farm in Dimmitt on Monday night, as the cattle were waiting to be milked, authorities told local news outlets.

A dairy farm worker rescued from the building was taken to a hospital and was in critical but stable condition.

Investigators have not determined the cause of the fire, but Castro County Sheriff Sal Rivera told KCBD-TV that overheating electrical equipment used to suck waste from the holding pens may have ignited methane.

Photos and videos of the fire posted to social media show a massive plume of thick black smoke swelling from the fire.

“It’s mind-boggling,” Dimmitt Mayor Roger Malone told USA Today. “I don’t think it’s ever happened before around here. It’s a real tragedy.”

It was the biggest single-incident death of cattle in the U.S. since the Animal Welfare Institute, an animal advocacy group, began tracking barn and farm fires in 2013.

Texas ranks fourth nationally in milk production and is home to an estimated 625,000 cows producing almost 16.5 billion pounds of milk a year, according to the Texas Association of Dairymen. Castro County is the second-highest-producing county in Texas, with 15 dairies producing roughly 11% of the state’s milk.

They're destroying our food sources

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oliver clotheshoffe wrote:

So did these 18k cows like, blow up? Cow parts everywhere?

Anyone got barbecue sauce?

Last I heard, the dairy cows are now giving evaporated milk,

Sounds like they don't have an answer as to how to dispose of the carcasses yet:

What to do, what to do!!

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