Heat Stress: The Modern Dairy Cow is less Heat Tolerant Than in the Past

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Every summer, heat stress leads to lost milk production and supressed fertility rates in the modern dairy cow. Selection for more heat tolerant animals, incorporating the slick gene, providing housing conditions with better temperature control, and using nutritional strategies to reduce internal heat production, all have potential to help deal with a problem that is costing farmers millions of dollars worldwide.

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