Cows rely on their rumen microbiome to digest food and produce milk efficiently. Understanding these microbes could help ...

The ebb and flow of market factors require dairies to be nimble in their management strategies. Situation currently at hand: ...

There’s a very easy explanation for all this: Russian farmers, outside of Moscow, have been fitting their cows with VR headsets in an attempt to increase milk production. Duh.

The impact on milk production by dairy cows wearing these prototype VR glasses will be detailed in a future comprehensive study. Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Moscow Region didn't ...

Researchers and farmers are trying to figure out just how harmful wildfire smoke is to dairy cows’ health, and to their own bottom lines. “I bet it does affect milk production,” Rose said.

Keeping spring cows milking well must be high on the agenda, as they still have a long way to go before drying off, writes independent ruminant nutritionist Brian Reidy ...

New preliminary research from the University of Idaho has found that dairy cattle exposed to poor air quality and heat stress produced around 1.3 liters (1.4 quarts) less milk per day than the ...

They found, unfortunately, that it does: The cows produced about three pounds less milk per day, per cow, during especially smoky periods. That figure took weeks to return to normal once the smoke ...

About 80 cows hoofed it to their new home, the Dairy Cattle Teaching and Research Center, a $75 million facility the East ...

A cow named Kharta from Kibbutz Sa’ad in the South has produced 18,208 liters a year as the highest individual milk production record for a cow in Israel. It has also been recognized as a world record ...

Cows are sensitive to heat, and overheating can reduce milk production and lead to serious health problems. Credit: Alycia Drwencke Marinus Dijkstra and his 1,550 dairy cows all felt the effects ...