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Increase in milk production due to intensive cow cooling

How much milk adds intensive cooling in the summer to the annual yield of young and mature cows

Published: November 23, 2023
Summary
Global warming and the constant increase in cow’s milk yield exacerbate the summer problem in dairy farms and increase the production loss caused to milk producers. In order to quantify these losses, I collected data from five large scale high yielding dairy farms (1,500 to 3,000 cows per herd), located in the Torreon region, north Mexico, characterized by a desert climate, with close to 18...
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Israel Flamenbaum
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Rajeshwaran
6 de diciembre de 2023
Surprising that the breed of the animal has not been mentioned!
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Israel Flamenbaum
6 de diciembre de 2023
@Rajeshwaran , thanks for the comment. It is Holstein breed (by the way, the reason it was not mentioned is that i thought it is clear to readers that no other breeds reach such high productivity
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