Several of our monitor farms are working to install fans to help with cow cooling. These tend to be the big (60” to 72” diameter) vertical fans – often with…
AdminAugust 14, 2023
With the on-going poor weather one is tempted to forget about heat stress! However, now we are in the peak of the summer season, the underlying temperatures are all much…
AdminAugust 14, 2023
The cooler, wetter weather last week has meant there is little heat stress in many of the grazing setups we are monitoring. Hot, sunny afternoons can be uncomfortably warm but…
AdminAugust 7, 2023
The poor weather continues with some heavy rain disrupting outside pop-festivals and harvest alike. With the shelter from the rain the housed conditions are slightly poorer than the grazing conditions…
AdminAugust 7, 2023
On Friday our monitor farms in Yorkshire and Monmouthshire saw a gap in the clouds and had a hot, sunny afternoon. Was this enough to cause heat stress? A couple…
AdminJuly 31, 2023
Despite the poor weather and its impact on harvest and holidays there is still heat stress about. Although we are having quite a lot of rain the underlying seasonal temperatures…
AdminJuly 31, 2023
Despite the poor weather and its impact on harvest and holidays there is still heat stress about. Although we are having quite a lot of rain the underlying seasonal temperatures…
AdminJuly 31, 2023
The weekly average figures suggest that grazing cows on most of our monitor farms will have suffered very little heat stress in the past week due to a combination of…
AdminJuly 24, 2023
The cooler weather has continued in the past week and we have had some much needed rain. However the weather has stayed quite warm and the humidity has risen so…
AdminJuly 24, 2023
