LivestockA Rabobank study puts annual heat-related milk losses in the European regions it assessed at about 4.5 million tonnes today and 12.2 million tonnes around 2050 under high warming, with northern Italy, southern Germany, France and Spain hit hardest.
LivestockMoving cows between pens unsettles the herd's pecking order and can lower feed intake, rumination and milk; moving cows in groups, avoiding overcrowding and giving eight hours of darkness all help, writes John Yost in Farm and Dairy.
LivestockFarmers in Uttar Pradesh will get Rs 40,000 for each indigenous cow, for up to two cows, and the state will pay 85% of the insurance premium.
LivestockSixty Acres Farm near Truro averaged 12,351 litres a cow in 2025 on two milkings a day, which herd owner James Johns puts down to a simple, consistent system rather than chasing yield.
LivestockEar and leg sensors and GPS collars on cows at 27 New Zealand dairy farms linked personality to output: curious cows gave 0.67 litres a day more milk and spent longer grazing and lying.
Started with three crossbred goats, the farm now has about 25 Beetals after four years; unlike local Black Bengals, they leave surplus milk after feeding their kids.
NASS puts national August production at 19.9 billion pounds, with the herd up 167,000 cows from a year earlier; Kansas led the 24 major states with a 13.9% gain.
