After dairy farmers across Connecticut urged state lawmakers to pass a tax credit incentive to help an industry burdened with ...

Farm animal advocates have, over the last few decades, successfully drawn public attention to and meaningfully reduced the ...

Brandon Smith, a fourth-generation Connecticut dairy farmer, said that he doesn’t want to see the state’s dairy industry ...

Fewer than 80 dairy farms remain in Connecticut — a 63% decline over two decades. In the heyday of the industry during the 1950s and '60s, the state had nearly 1,000.

This new dairy farm bill is an udder failure. Cityslicker state lawmakers from the Big Apple want to limit the number of cows on New York’s dairy farms – a green push that opponents argue would ...

Milton Orr looked across the rolling hills in northeast Tennessee. “I remember when we had more than 1,000 dairy farms in this county. Now we have less than 40,” Orr, an agriculture adviser for Greene ...

On Monday, we saw a tier of heat that's dangerous for people and animals. Those hot temperatures can be a big problem for dairy cows. On Monday, the heat index in the Triangle reached triple digits, a ...

URBANA, Ill. – Livestock agriculture is bearing the cost of extreme weather events. A new study from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign explores how heat stress affects U.S. dairy production, ...

A single day of extreme heat can cut milk production by 10 per cent. And it doesn’t stop there – the effects of heat stress on dairy cows can linger for more than a week. That’s the finding from a ...