Thanks USDA

[inbredredneck]

Got me a Christmas present from the USDA. My wife and I both recieved our $100,000 LIP payments.

 

[Anonymous]

Whats the LIP payment and whats it for?

 

[inbredredneck]

Whats the LIP payment and whats it for?

Livestock Indemnity Program

To cover losses occured during adverse weather events.

 

[Anonymous]

None of my business but what was the event that affected you both to that degree?

 

[inbredredneck]

None of my business but what was the event that affected you both to that degree?

A grand total of 612 dead steers from extreme weather conditions.

 

[Anonymous]

Ouch.

 

[hillsdown]

Here's hoping that you never have another loss like that again and all the best in 2012 . :tiphat:

 

[Dixieangus]

None of my business but what was the event that affected you both to that degree?

A grand total of 612 dead steers from extreme weather conditions.

And what kind of weather was this! dont want it coming near me!

 

[Arkansas]

None of my business but what was the event that affected you both to that degree?

A grand total of 612 dead steers from extreme weather conditions.

Is it just me or is 200,000 not very much for 612 dead steers ? I wouldnt even think that would even cover half your losses ?

 

[dun]

None of my business but what was the event that affected you both to that degree?

A grand total of 612 dead steers from extreme weather conditions.

Is it just me or is 200,000 not very much for 612 dead steers ? I wouldnt even think that would even cover half your losses ?

It beats nothing!

 

[Roadapple]

What was the adverse weather? Fire, flood, heat?

 

[inbredredneck]

Heat.

It covered roughly 24% of my losses.

 

[TexasBred]

Heat.

It covered roughly 24% of my losses.

Wow that's a kick in the pants. Will take a while to overcome a year like that. Hope next year is better.

 

[Dixieangus]

Just curiouse but how did heat kill 612 steers? Feedlot?

 

[Workinonit Farm]

Just curiouse but how did heat kill 612 steers? Feedlot?

That would be my guess.

Katherine

 

[HEREFORD ROADHOG]

Sorry to hear about that terrible loss Redneck. And to think that some people on here had the nerve to challenge your experiance with cattle when you gave them advice. You have more than enough "experiance" after dealing with something like that. Hope 2012 is much better for you.

 

[inbredredneck]

I will tell you one thing for sure losing some money isn't the part of that deal that really hurt. I got a mental wound from that one day deal that will never heal.

 

[rockridgecattle]

A loss like that is devistating. I have experienced a day like that. It is hard and a feeling you think will never heal. I don't know if it heals but it does lessen. Makes one second guess everything he/she does. I think that is the hardest part, the second guessing. Getting over it financially is hard but never as hard as the mental.
Take care, and i hope you have a Merry Christmas

 

[angus9259]

A loss like that is devistating. I have experienced a day like that. It is hard and a feeling you think will never heal. I don't know if it heals but it does lessen. Makes one second guess everything he/she does. I think that is the hardest part, the second guessing.

yup, yup, and amen

 

[djinwa]

I probably shouldn't ask, but since you brought it up...

Could you give more details? Feedlot? Color of cattle?

I've been interested in heat stress for awhile, especially as it relates to black hided cattle, which seem to take a much bigger hit in heat waves in feedlots. Wondering if it might affect the trend toward black cattle.

http://www.iowabeefcenter.org/Cattlemen ... 0study.pdf

The weather on July 11 and 12, 1995 was a deadly
combination of high temperature, high relative
humidity, no cloud cover and no wind. The
combination of heat and humidity has been
matched only five times in Iowa's 101 years of
weather records. Estimated cattle death loss in a
13-county area of West Central Iowa was 3,750 head
or 2.32% of the cattle on feed. A survey of 36 beef
producers with 9,830 head of cattle on feed in 81
lots was summarized. Thirty-five lots with shade (24
square feet per head) reported an average death
loss of .2% as compared to 46 lots without shade
with losses of 4.8%. Producers reported a
disproportionately higher death loss in dark-hided
cattle.
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Producers with the nonshaded
lots reported highest death loss in dark-hided
cattle. Thirty out of 36 producers indicated higher death
loss in black cattle and the other six producers
indicated higher death loss with red cattle and had no
black cattle on feed. One producer indicated only 20%
of the cattle in the pen were black, but 80% of the
death loss was black cattle.