A dairy nutritionist with Zinpro Corporation says heat stress in the summer can drastically reduce farmer profitability. Jeff Tikofsky says annual losses are estimated at $1.5 billion per year. “That ranges from reproductive losses, culling, lost milk, component losses, morbidity, and mortality,” he says. “It’s the kind of problem we don’t think enough about or […]
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