Reducing, limiting or controlling stressors and their impact on your herd can lead to increased efficiency and a more sustainable dairy farm.
Let’s review a sustainability approach to managing stressors and solutions that can help your business, your cows, your employees, your bottom line and the environment.
A view inside the relationship between stressors and sustainability
This article appeared in BC Holstein News.
Stress is an inevitable part of life for dairy herds. Unfortunately, managing stress isn’t as straightforward as flipping a switch. Unlike turning off lights to save energy, we can’t simply turn off cow stress. Stress arises from various stressors, and there are more than 30 of them that can affect a dairy cow’s health and…
Read ArticleResearch in the area of cow stress can be challenging…often during the process, only one or two stressors are studied, enabling cleaner statistics. Yet this isn’t the on-farm reality. Easily in farm situations, there can be several stressors that compound, making a bad situation much worse. We have all seen it. An example: A first-lactation heifer calves and is moved to a…
Read ArticleStress is an inevitable part of life for dairy herds. Unfortunately, managing stress isn’t as straightforward as flipping a switch. Unlike turning off lights to save energy, we can’t simply turn off cow stress. Stress arises from various stressors, and there are more than 30 of them that can affect a dairy cow’s health and…
Read ArticleResearch in the area of cow stress can be challenging…often during the process, only one or two stressors are studied, enabling cleaner statistics. Yet this isn’t the on-farm reality. Easily in farm situations, there can be several stressors that compound, making a bad situation much worse. We have all seen it. An example: A first-lactation heifer calves and is moved to a…
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