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When severe weather makes its way to your operation, be sure you have an adequate plan and checklist in place before disaster strikes.

After snow, ice, rain and flooding hammered farmers and ranchers in March, another round of late winter weather is on the way promising more snow, severe weather and flooding.

A tornado on March 12 near Roswell, New Mexico, damaged a number of dairy farms and forced at least one farm to euthanize at least 150 cattle.

As winter rolls on, several places in the country are on pace to break some records for snow. Many other areas in the Midwest are feeling brutally cold conditions. AgDay Meteorologist Mike Hoffman has an update.

Officials say the more than 1,800 dairy cows that died in a blizzard in southern Washington state earlier this month were a nearly $4 million loss, not including the lost milk production.

During the winter months cattle experience cold stress anytime the effective ambient temperature (taking into account wind chill, humidity, etc.), drops below the lower critical temperature. Here's five tips.

A viral Facebook post about cattle killed in a lightning strike serves as a reminder of the disconnect between livestock producers and consumers.


The calendar says April, but Old Man Winter is still making his presence known nearly four weeks after the official start of spring.

It might be spring on the calendar, but a major winter storm system, bringing snow and blizzard conditions is rolling through parts of the Plains and the Midwest Friday through the weekend.

The largest severe weather outbreak of the season is set to strike the southern and central regions of the U.S. into Tuesday night.

Small tornado damages dairy farm southeast of Salem

State officials said at least 10,000 to 20,000 head of livestock died, but the estimate will likely rise.

What's being called the state's third-largest ag disaster is suffocating crops and making feed availability uncertain.