As an admin who grew up near livestock i disagree the Cattle analogy. You want a parallel to farming I'd like at modern hog industry. The hog is the data and not the building they are housed in.

Hardware Is a tangible asset, as are the farrowing, growing and finishing buildings for the hog farmer. As we struggle with our DR planning is very much like a farmer who would be concerned about a tornado wiping our a building in which the hogs are contained. But the parallel about ends there. a farmer can if assets and cash flow allows to set up multiple sites for his operation too but it comes at an economic cost. Infrastructure additional labor etc. it doesn't eliminate loss in the event of a catastrophe, it only can minimize the loss a bit.

In a DR condition, the farmer not only losses the building he also losses the livestock . A farmer cant avoid loss of stock in disaster, we can avoid loss of data. Our costs are infrastructure and labor.