Fresh Take: Will America’s Cattle Get Relief From The Heat This Summer?

Heavy rainfall in Colorado and other parts of the High Plains this week ended much of the region’s moderate drought—and that’s a big deal. The High Plains states from Kansas to Montana are where many of America’s cattle are raised, and by this time last year, extreme heat and the compounding drought had already killed hundreds of livestock in one of the deadliest seasons for cattle in recent history.

So far, 2024 hasn’t been as disastrous, which is good news for all the workers, animals and crops. Summer’s bounty is in full swing, and I hope you keep enjoying it!

— Chloe Sorvino, Staff Writer

Order my book, Raw Deal: Hidden Corruption, Corporate Greed and the Fight for the Future of Meat, out now from Simon & Schuster’s Atria Books.

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Field Notes

Nothing like a summer grill plate! Featuring CSA vegetables, this dish includes Happy Rich broccoli, zucchini, corn, radicchio salad, and pesto pasta salad with ingredients from a friend’s recent trip to Puglia.

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Chloe Sorvino leads coverage of food and agriculture as a staff writer on the enterprise team at Forbes. Her book, Raw Deal: Hidden Corruption, Corporate Greed and the Fight for the Future of Meat, published on December 6, 2022, with Simon & Schuster’s Atria Books. Her nearly nine years of reporting at Forbes has brought her to In-N-Out Burger’s secret test kitchen, drought-ridden farms in California’s Central Valley, burnt-out national forests logged by a timber billionaire, a century-old slaughterhouse in Omaha and even a chocolate croissant factory designed like a medieval castle in northern France.