Texas Dairy Farm Explosion Kills 18,000
Cattle: Cause Still Undetermined

It's all that concentrated methane gas flatulence. This is a really odd event.

The Biden administration and his environmental policy strike again. we can’t have those cows putting out all that methane so off with their heads and call it an accident

An incredible tragedy, no matter what the cause.

Antifa?

Unregulated cow farts. What a shame.

State of the art Mega Dairy industrial plant...only been open for about 1 year. Apparently the overheated "Honey Badger" manure/fluids processing equipt over heated, led to a fire, which triggered an explosion, partially propane tanks, partially methane. The burning insulation of the YUUUUUGE Barn was most of the smoke, it's automated cross ventilation system of hundreds of ten foot tall fans made sure there was plenty of "Draft" to turn the barn into a blast furnace. This is the stuff that has driven small dairies, family farms under. We finally sold our 200yo Family farm last January, "Go BIG..or go broke", as Govt regulations and "Influences" via tax and enviromental policies also drove all of the Milk buyers under. There are only about 5 major buyers nation wide, Wal-Mart and Kroger arr the clients, both of whom have also been canceling their contracts and opening their OWN mega dairies instead. I don;t know whether Frank Brand Farms is one of those operations, but they own several similar mega milk plants.

The dairies in the Texas panhandle house the cattle in open-air sheds. The wind in the panhandle blows constantly (and hard). I doubt there was any buildup of methane.

How is it that a dairy farm explodes? The only thing I can think of that is possibly explosive is methane which is formed by the normal bacterial action on cow manure, which dairy farms have HUGE ponds or tanks of. Lots of these used to be just open ponds, but some of them have been pushed to be "green", which can mean putting the manure slurry into a contained system of some sort and then separating the methane and often compressing it for storage to use for heating or other energy purposes. This methane is pretty much identical to natural gas....but it will NOT have the "oderant" additive which pipeline companies put into natural gas so that humans can smell a leak of this odorless gas. So, a leak of cow manure methane may be odorless, and just as explosive as a natural gas leak. Fill a large barn with a methane-air mix, and then any sort of a spark..... Just a theory. I have read that many large dairy operations have been convinced to do this "biogas" sort of a system, and I think that the EPA is all over them with fines if they don't do something with it. Years ago, they just left it in the ponds until it naturally turned into fertilizer to be spread on fields. Our ecocrazy bureaucrats probably have made that illegal, just guessing - since every other thing is being made illegal by ecocrazies.

Texas? Southfork? Isn't that just a recipe for trouble?

First they came for our Chickens, then even the Pigs, now the Cows! Sorry, I don't think any of those things were Accidental! That must have been some Big Barn to hold 18,000 Cows. My Grandparents operated a Dairy Cattle Farm. When it was time to milk, the Cows came in and went into a "Lock" so the Milking Machines could be attached. Of course before that, they all had to be milked by hand! Anyway, I can't imagine 18,000 cows being milked all at once! Must have been a Huge Operation!

There's a tweet that Citizensfreepress posted by a former CA dairy farmer who moved to TN to continue her small dairy farm because of all the regulations, etc - all in the effort to destroy the family farm.

Vi m that sounds like an antitrust problem

I grew up on our dairy farm. Went to college for animal science and ag economics. Two instructors came out to the farm and told us we were in an impossible situation. To survive we'd need to double our herd, bigger barn, new milk equipment, additional silo, and much bigger farm machinery and more land. That was the end of that dream. All but one of my friends have stopped animal farminf, most went broke or quit in the 1980s and 1990s. Every time I see our dairy farm I think about how much I love dairy cattle. === To the Texas farm. Yesterday there was an article with drone footage of the farm. In the video they had the manure storage pit in the lower part of the scene. It was open topped, it didn't have a roof over it so there couldn't have been a buildup of methane from manure. The silage - hay and corn - bunkers were behind the barn. They build up gases but I can't imagine how a silage pile could blow up plus any gases would be during and after the slaves were harvested which would have been last fall. If methane from manure was to be harvested wouldn't the have to be a roof over the storage to keep the methane from being lost? This one has me perplexed and saddened thinking of the cattle that had to have suffered horribly. I can imagine the terrible rush to have the bodies removed before they begin rotting.

mrna vaccine side effect? Then the herd has to be destroyed? Then, of course, you need a cover story?

I worked on a 3,000-head dairy farm during college summers. I find it hard to believe there was not enough ventilation in the open-air pens, especially if it was newly built. It was just last year when there was a massive overnight die-off of 2,000 beef cattle in Kansas stockyards.

18 thousand cows! They would fill Arizona's meteor crater. This scale operation is hard to believe.

Re #13. I sympathize with your family dairy farm plight. My parents lived in central Virginia, and in the 70s and through the 80s had good friends nearby who ran a couple of family dairy operations. I can remember getting a call late Christmas Eve pleading for help. My father was extremely "handy" and an engineering degree, and a licensed electrician and I have a couple of engineering degrees and can pretty much fix anything mechanical and a lot electrical. So, we headed to the farm that memorable Christmas Eve. The problem was that the automatic controller for the milking machine system had failed to go into the wash cycle and there was milk remaining in the lines which had to be flushed with a cleaning solution, or if it stayed too long, it would contaminate the system and they'd not be able to milk in the morning, huge losses. Knowing zero about the system, but with explanations of what it SHOULD do from the dairymen, and them helping with "this is the wash pump"...so we could track wiring, we started troubleshooting and eventually found a cam in the complex electro-mechanical timer system which had come loose from the timer shaft, and wasn't tripping a microswitch to turn on the washing pump. A quick reset of timing and tightening the cam back to the shaft and back in business. It was very clear to me that they worked VERY hard for a what was a good living for an extended family in those days. I moved away, and my parents have been dead for years, I have no idea whether the family is still in the dairy business. From what you say, sounds doubtful, financially. I have good memories of family dairy farms, too. In any case.....if the manure ponds were open, how would methane build up? No idea. Silage can build some methane, too, but they are usually vented. The silage that I worked with as a college kid in Florida was in "ground silos", two parallel wooden walls and a huge pile of silage between covered in tarps to exclude air, but any methane would leak away about as it was formed. Air couldn't easily enter, but gases inside could leak out. I don't know about old fashioned tall cylindrical silos, most of those around here are abandoned, without roofs. I suppose we'll finally hear what it was. Sad to lose that many cows. The death of the family dairy farm seems a real shame. We made our own cheese a few times because we could get large quantities of milk at wholesale prices from our friends.

PLEASE calm down! 18,000 cows were not killed! My Husband was at the facility and while any animal loss is a tragedy, only 500 cows died! PSEUDO news strikes again! GEEZE!

First they came for the chickens and the eggs; now they're coming after the cows and steak. They're working to destabilize the US and impoverish US all. The farms, chemical spills, putting vaccine stuff in milk. This is intentional!

There certainly are lots of explosions with food sources in the last year.

This must be the 98 food related fire. How many food processing plants have been destroyed and no FBI. CIA look into the destruction. Tells you a lot.

It was probably a set up by BLM. After all, milk is white. And I’m only half joking - I put nothing past the left.

Thank you for your report, #18. When food supplies etc. are limited, people will comply (to anything) in order to eat.

Just about every week something happens that further convinces me that the WEF has a secret platoon of saboteurs that runs around destroying the means of food production. You vill eat zee bugs!

Went looking for other articles to confirm the number of dead cattle and came up with this: https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/approximately-100000-hens-killed-in-fire-at-hillandale-farms-in-bozrah-doag/2964707/ Sadly, I found a number of sources that confirmed 18,000 cows dead.

Too many bad things have been happening to our food supply system...time to start asking questions...a conspiracy perhaps??? To what end? Starve us? Time to get some 25 year storage food...

Sheriff:"There are 18 large Dairy farms like this in our County...this is the newest one" I wonder whether they were a whole milk, powdered milk, milk fat, butter, butter fat, milk by products, powdered by products...It's not like that one county is gonna drink 50,000 cows worth of milk. In fact Cows may just outnumber people there. They certainly out number employees, 18,000 cows...60 Employees, means the whole place is automated, "Robots".

Thank you #18! I had thought about how much acreage 18,000 cows would take, even if packed together, and it seemed impossible for any kind of a non-military explosion to kill that many cows. Didn't make sense. Glad to hear it is just the normal incompetent fools in the "media".

Here's a sad fact about our media, I believe poster #18 before any other reports. L-dotters are the last bastion of Truth.