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, ...

The U.S. dairy industry stands at a pivotal juncture, ripe with potential yet confronting undeniable challenges.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The package offers nothing specific to dairy farmers and opinion varies as to the market’s reaction to the latest government ...

The number of milk-producing farms declined by nearly 39% in the five years leading up to the 2022 Census of Agriculture. The survey of of farms and ranches conducted every five years reported 24,082 ...

Running a dairy farm isn't easy, especially when the costs of production rise faster than income. AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall Milton Orr looked across the rolling hills in northeast Tennessee. “I ...