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 US dairy production, finding that ...
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, ...
Dr. Brian Reed explains why he sees dairy farmers as blue and white-collar workers and how understanding the difference can impact farm transitions.
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 ...
Dairy farms in CT disappearing as financial, environmental challenges pose a threat to profitability
Dave Buck of Guardians Farm in Southbury admits that being a dairy farmer is not easy, as high operating costs and inflation make turning a profit more difficult, but he said dairy farming is a labor ...
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 ...
Milton Orr looked across the rolling hills in northeast Tennessee. “I remember when we had more than 1,000 dairy farms in this county. Now we have less than 40,” Orr, an agriculture adviser for Greene ...
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