Dairy Cow Heat Stress

The hot weather has continued through the week with the weekend being one of the hottest so far this year. All regions were in moderate heat stress through-out the week…

The hot weather has continued through the week with the weekend being one of the hottest so far this year. All regions were in moderate heat stress through-out the week…

As I write this post it feels that the recent heat wave has eased - but the forthcoming forecast is not much cooler.  Given this is June we can be…

As I write this post it feels like the recent heat wave has eased - but the forthcoming forecast is not much cooler.  Given this is June we can be…

We are suffering our first heatwave of the summer. The weather changed subtly last Friday with a change in wind direction and since then heat stress risk and THI scores…

We are suffering our first heatwave of the summer. The weather changed subtly last Friday with a change in wind direction and since then heat stress risk and THI scores…

The past week has been typical weather for May – nice sunny periods with some showers. The image below shows the heat stress situation for housed cows on our monitor…

The past week has been typical weather for May – nice sunny periods with some showers. The image below shows the heat stress situation for grazing cows on our monitor…