Let's Take Care of What We Have

Alexis Corman Author

12/18/2019 Added

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Alexis Coreman, AESC student makes a photo video story about Justin Corman, a third generation farmer. In Bridgeport, NE he talks about preparing for the 2019 spring blizzard and the effects of the major snow and flooding after the melt.

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[00:00:05.950]In mid-March a bomb cyclone brought over
[00:00:08.044]ten inches of snow and 50 mile-an-hour
[00:00:09.704]winds after two to three inches of
[00:00:11.464]freezing rain to the Panhandle of
[00:00:12.968]Nebraska. An estimated four thousand head
[00:00:15.359]of cattle were lost during a blizzard.
[00:00:21.380]Justin Corman, my dad, and a
[00:00:22.750]third-generation farmer on our family
[00:00:24.520]operation of Corman Farms in Bridgeport
[00:00:26.500]said that while they prepared for the
[00:00:28.239]storm they knew that there would be
[00:00:29.619]heartbreaking loss in the days to come.
[00:00:41.503]really we moved a lot of cattle closer
[00:00:43.023]to where we have wind protection.
[00:00:45.070]Those include shelter belts, we put wind
[00:00:48.010]breaks out by different corn stock metal
[00:00:51.729]straw bales. Trying to try to get them in
[00:00:53.500]position where they can have the
[00:00:55.110]protection that they needed to survive
[00:00:57.629]with their calve. Survive if they were
[00:01:00.100]calving at that time. And really accessible
[00:01:02.290]so we could get to them.
[00:01:05.250]You know the next morning we had drifts
[00:01:09.390]bigger than I've ever seen in my life.
[00:01:10.770]Had a lot of trouble getting in the
[00:01:12.570]cattle. In fact that night, we check cattle
[00:01:15.960]as long as we could. Till we wouldn't go no more. Just
[00:01:18.960]from simple fact to get stuck at work.
[00:01:21.050]The next day rule it was just let's
[00:01:24.260]let's take care of what we had. What they
[00:01:29.100]found the next day was heartbreaking.
[00:01:30.710]Local veterinarian, Travis Bainanne said
[00:01:33.330]in our immediate area he would guess 800
[00:01:35.760]baby calves, at least that many mature
[00:01:37.710]cattle, and thousands of feedlot calves
[00:01:39.870]were lost
[00:01:47.550]You know the calves that we already had
[00:01:49.750]picked up, we had 16 calves in the barn that
[00:01:51.580]night we picked up. We made sure those
[00:01:53.800]were fed. We made sure we were getting the
[00:01:55.270]cows fed. We went out and we're helping
[00:01:58.060]the calves that were born at that point,
[00:02:00.070]in the last three hours since we were
[00:02:01.869]able to get their scent. And then you know,
[00:02:04.930]in our feedlot here most of the
[00:02:07.060]bunks we had to hand scoop.
[00:02:08.350]Get them, because the snow was so heavy
[00:02:10.869]and packed that we just couldn't kind of
[00:02:12.700]feed on top of that or you're just gonna
[00:02:13.900]have a mess. So there's a lot of work
[00:02:15.940]involved with that. The main thing was
[00:02:17.260]just getting the cattle fed. Taking care
[00:02:18.760]of what you currently had and then from
[00:02:21.820]there we worked forward for the next
[00:02:23.290]couple days walking some tree rows where
[00:02:26.230]the snowdrifts got deep. Making sure we
[00:02:27.580]had nothing underneath them.
[00:02:32.050]Reloaded for the next storm that we
[00:02:33.940]received two weeks or three weeks later

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