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 ...
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.
Vermont is in a drought, and the Upper Valley area is seeing some of the worst of it. Farmers there are wondering: Will they ...
In 2017, a fierce storm in Springfield, Missouri, turned what should have been an ordinary Saturday night into an absolute nightmare for dairy farmers Jared and Misty Blackwelder. I can still vividly ...
Gov. Josh Shapiro marked a farming milestone in Lebanon County on Wednesday. He visited the Talview Dairy Farm in South ...
For the family-owned Bilow Farms LLC, located in Malone, N.Y., the drive for improvement is particularly evident, where ...