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Nutrition is playing a bigger role in heat stress management, with yeast, chromium and betaine stepping up as three tools to help ease the impact.

For all the demand wins dairy has seen this year, growing milk supplies and expanding cow numbers continue to keep dairy markets under pressure and prices trending lower.

Sen. Boozman’s Farm Bill 2.0 bolsters farm safety nets and updates conservation programs, but notably excludes Prop 12, E15 and pesticide labeling.

Heat stress affects the cellular and immune systems that protect dairy cows from disease, creating impacts that extend far beyond production losses.

U.S. milk production hits 20.6 billion lb. as the national herd reaches a 30-year high, driven by extreme cow efficiency and a massive 21% surge in Kansas expansion.

Today’s dairy producers are making every pregnancy count, using sexed semen, genomics and beef-on-dairy strategies to turn breeding decisions into more targeted replacement programs.

With beef cattle herds at a 75-year low, the cow-calf side hustle has sent dairy replacement prices over $4,000, forcing producers to choose between instant beef checks and the future of the herd.

At MVP Dairy, two fourth-generation farm families with more than 100 years of farming history have come together to build a system where every decision is made with the next generation in mind.

Despite a sharp drop in profit sentiment, 45% of producers are defying the storm through surgical efficiency and cultural pivots, proving grit and innovation are the keys to 2026 growth.