As global temperatures climb, dairy cows are struggling to keep up. Researchers in Italy and Israel have found that even one day of heat stress can disrupt milk supply for over a week. Cheesemakers ...
URBANA, Ill. – Livestock agriculture is bearing the cost of extreme weather events. A new study from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign explores how heat stress affects U.S. dairy production, ...
Extreme heat causes cows to produce less milk. This poses problems in cheese-obsessed Italy, especially as it tries to meet ...
GOOD LUCK. THANK YOU. NEW AT FOUR IOWA DAIRY FARMERS SAY THE SUMMER HEAT WAVE IS STARTING TO AFFECT THEIR HERDS. BLAKE HANSEN OWNS FARM FRESH DAIRY IN HUDSON. HIS 150 HEAD MAKE ABOUT 1200 GALLONS OF ...
On Monday, we saw a tier of heat that's dangerous for people and animals. Those hot temperatures can be a big problem for dairy cows. On Monday, the heat index in the Triangle reached triple digits, a ...
A new study from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign explores how heat stress affects U.S. dairy production, finding that high heat and humidity lead to a 1% decline in annual milk yield.
A single day of extreme heat can cut milk production by 10 per cent. And it doesn’t stop there – the effects of heat stress on dairy cows can linger for more than a week. That’s the finding from a ...
Berwick Settle has worked on some of the biggest dairy farms in the world, where cows never go outside the barn and must take regular showers to stay cool and keep the milk flowing.
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NEW YORK (WBNG) -- Governor Kathy Hochul announced nearly $21.6 million has been awarded to 103 farms across the state through the Dairy Modernization Grant Program to support New York’s dairy ...