Climate change is making it more difficult to raise cattle – growth and reproduction are affected by heat – so it’s critical to breed cattle better adapted to a hotter and longer summer.
According to the animal husbandry department, 497 cows died due to stress caused by extreme heat and humidity during the past two months. Kollam district tops the list with 105 cow deaths ...
With heat indices climbing into the triple digits in cattle feeding areas, there have been some accounts of death losses. Unconfirmed reports have an estimated 10,000 head in Kansas and an ...
It says the roasting summer heat affecting much of continental Europe ... This has meant that some farmers have decided to slaughter their cattle earlier than usual; but others have instead ...