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Heat stressing California livestock
California officials say extreme heat during June and early July is blamed for thousands of dairy cattle deaths.
California Department of Food and Agriculture spokesman Jay Van Rein tells Brownfield they had several days last month with temperatures greater than 100 degrees, but it’s the long-term heat waves that caused most problems. “The scenario you watch out for isn’t the individual heat wave, but the repeated heat waves back-to-back or very long not only to you get heat during the day or during successive days, but you don’t get significant cooling overnight.”
Van Rein says California’s central valley is expecting temperatures higher than 100 degrees this weekend and into next week, but they’ve seen worse.
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