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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
This new dairy farm bill is an udder failure. Cityslicker state lawmakers from the Big Apple want to limit the number of cows on New York’s dairy farms – a green push that opponents argue would ...
Wisconsin Democratic lawmakers visited a local dairy farm in Cambridge to learn about the issues affecting farmers and the ...
Jun. 2—LOWVILLE — New York state is pushing more than $21 million in grant money out to over 100 dairy farms statewide, part of a long-term push to enhance and expand the state's upstate milk and milk ...
Picture this: A dairy barn full of cows being milked, fed and cleaned up after, but there’s no farmer in sight. Sounds a bit unusual, right? Well, it’s not as far-fetched as you might think. Thanks to ...