In Patagonia, with extreme snowfall, they try to avoid livestock losses.

With extreme snowfalls that exceed the historical average for the time, livestock producers in the Cuyo and Patagonia region face the challenge of sustaining the stability of the systems to avoid losses. INTA provides a series of recommendations in a context of heavy snowfall. For Francisco Milicevic - livestock producer and veterinary doctor of INTA Río Gallegos, Santa Cruz - among the various climatic events they face, extreme snowfall worries the region. "Snowfall is the most risky since it directly affects the stability of sheep production systems," he said. In this sense, he assured that the intensity of mortality for the different categories of animals is determined by different factors. Among them the altitude, latitude, slope and orientation and wind, which are the ones that generate the greatest winter risks. "The main causes of death of livestock vary between suffocation, stress, ketosis, starvation and hypothermia," said the specialist, who also added: "The greatest ...