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, ...

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 ...

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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 ...

It is hot this week in Eastern Washington. How hot is it? It’s so hot, dairy farmers are scrambling to cool down their herds so that their operations don’t dry up. Yeah, it’s not a joke. Northwest ...