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This makes them candidates of either unexpressed or silent heat or they are anoestrous. Recently a farmer sent me an e-mail, in it, he said he had two dairy cattle that had failed to show heat.
INDIANTOWN, Fla. — As every part of the community deals with the extreme heat, there's a growing concern for Florida's cattle. WPTV spoke with a local rancher who said the dangerously high ...
The team of researchers found that milk production declined significantly on hot, humid days -- by up to 10 percent when ...
But there is always going to be some need to treat heat stress in cattle. At BioZyme, St. Joseph, Missouri, experts believe in care that comes full circle. BioZyme created a blog to help producers.
A new study reveals extreme heat slashes dairy yields, and even high-tech cooling can’t fully fix the problem. View on ...
Heat is usually most dangerous for the heaviest cattle that weigh more than 1,000 pounds (450 kg), but temperatures and humidity spiked so high that even lighter 700-pound cattle died, Vetter said.
BATON ROUGE, La. — This summer’s extreme heat has been and continues to be brutal on Louisiana cattle. When the temperature at night remains above 80 degrees, it’s really hard for cattle to ...
More dead cattle. The heat wave that scorched much of the Midwest, Northeast and South this week brought temperatures in Kansas, the third-largest cattle producing state, into the upper 90s, with ...
Kansas had at least 2,000 cattle deaths in June 2022 amid triple-digit heat and high humidity, Lara said at the time. Many volunteer firefighters took off from their jobs to hose down cattle ...
Still, many cattle died, he said. The death toll was highest among cattle that weighed 1,150 pounds or more, Handke said. Larger cattle are more susceptible to heat, said Holton rancher Dan Doyle.