the kansas department of health said as of tuesday it knew of thousandd cattle reported dead after the high heat and humidity temps reached one hundred and eight degrees in northwest kansas on monday. and the national weather service says the sweltering heat could extend into next week. now one kansas farmer, greg petersen, says the animal healthx index is the worst it s been in 10 to 20 years. peterson10 says southwestern kansas saw a rare heat burstat that caused the temperature to spike to 100 degrees at night. that farmer explains it on very hot days. cattle must have those cooll nights. justice survive well, just as they thought they were cooling off their systems, thought they were going to b get a break, that temperature shotre back to over 100 degreest i think that s what killed those cattle. i don tn for sure. and weco probably will find out for a couple of days nowow that farmers says there areei theories out there like the cattle being poisonedd and he says every possibilit