Even mild cases can impact milk production, health and well-being. Researchers, citing expenses and losses farmers incur from ...

Robotic milking can be a game-changer for labor efficiency, but it doesn’t totally eliminate hands-on work—especially when it ...

Dairy cows and the dairy farming industry in the UK and overseas are benefiting from strategic animal-husbandry changes and lameness-control programmes. In 1997, the UK’s Farm Animal Welfare Council ...

Cows are violently kicked, punched, and struck with pipes and electric goads at a dairy farm supplying a company that sells ...

lameness and mastitis. The researchers found that heifers treated with meloxicam produced, on average, 11 more pounds of milk in the first 150 days compared to other cows. Over-conditioned cows ...

The GB Dairy Cow Lameness Manifesto, developed by the Dairy Cattle Mobility Steering Group and supported by Ruminant Health & Welfare and the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB ...

Ambitious national dairy herd lameness targets to cut lameness to 5% on 95% of British dairy herds have been published as part of a new 21-point manifesto. The GB Dairy Cow Lameness Manifesto has ...