Could a cow’s birth season impact its longevity and productivity? University of Florida researchers say yes—discover how heat ...

Farmers have from time immemorial used expression of heat to breed livestock and other animal species. Failure to express heat behaviour is one of the things that occasion losses to dairy farmers.

As we are into April, maximising the cow's grass intake while making sure she is meeting her energy requirements up until ...

Temperature Humidity Index (THI) combines air temperature and relative humidity to calculate an index value to better represent the environmental conditions a cow or other animal feels. Dairy cows ...

Livestock agriculture is bearing the cost of extreme weather events. A new study explores how heat stress affects U.S. dairy production, finding that high heat and humidity lead to a 1% decline in ...

A study from the University of Illinois reveals that heat stress significantly impacts U.S. dairy production, with smaller farms facing greater losses.

Cows are everywhere in India– whether you're driving through the streets, walking through a village, or roaming around a ...

Heat stress significantly impacts dairy cow productivity, health, and welfare. This study evaluated a self-developed herbal formula as a dietary intervention to mitigate heat stress. A total of 198 ...

When cows are heat stressed, many dairy producers have seen a drop in milk production and feed intake firsthand.

But in our dairy marketing system ... which most accurately reflect the heat stress a cow experiences, as high heat and humidity make it harder for the cow to cool down through sweating.