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This observational study aimed to determine the frequency of such findings and their associations with animal demographics. Systemic necropsies were conducted for 889 cattle mortalities with minimal autolysis across six feedyards in the Central High Plains during the summers of 2022 and 2023. Lesions and abnormalities were recorded along with arrival weight, sex, days on feed (DOFs), and number of treatments. The results showed that 72% of mortalities had more than one gross lesion, averaging 2.3 lesions per animal. The most common organ systems affected together were digestive and pulmonary (19%), followed by cardiovascular, digestive, and pulmonary (6%), and cardiovascular and pulmonary (5%). Common concurrent lesions included bronchopneumonia with an interstitial pattern (BIP) and gastrointestinal lesions (GI) (8%), bronchopneumonia and GI (7%), and acute interstitial pneumonia (AIP) and GI (3%). A generalized linear mixed effects model revealed that the likelihood of multiple lesions increased with DOFs (p = 0.02). 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