It wouldn’t be a Wisconsin summer without heat and humidity. On the dairy farm, periods of heat stress necessitate special care to mitigate its adverse effects on calves, cows and people. The thermo-neutral zone, or the environmental temperatures when cattle don’t expend additional energy to stay warm or cool, ranges from 41 degrees to 77 degrees F. When the temperature is above this zone, cattle start to respond negatively.
University of Wisconsin-Extension has created a library of resources on managing heat stress on…
