E343 Transform Heat Stress into Your Carbon Strategy’s Secret Weapon

Heat stress in dairy cattle isn't just cutting your milk yield—it's driving up methane emissions and threatening your farm's profitability and sustainability. This episode exposes the double financial and environmental blow of rising temperatures on your operation and offers scientifically-backed, practical strategies to protect your herd, optimize genetics, and turn climate challenges into competitive advantage.

Key Takeaways:

• Discover how heat stress increases methane emissions by up to 23% per gallon of milk and slashes production—what that means for your bottom line
• Learn why the outdated 80°F threshold for heat stress management is costing your operation thousands and how monitoring THI at 68 provides a crucial early warning system
• Understand how genetic selection for heat tolerance, includin ...