They considered a milk cow, but didn’t know if they’d have ... and that gave the Schouts the idea to raise their own small-breed dairy cattle. They started with Jerseys (because of the high ...

Small farms are hit harder than large ... They included over 56 million cow-level production records from 18,000 dairy farms from 2012 to 2016. They adjusted the milk data for protein and fat ...

A new study explores how heat stress affects U.S. dairy production, finding that high heat and humidity lead to a 1% decline in annual milk yield. Small farms ... 56 million cow-level production ...