Climate Change, Heat Stress, and U.S. Dairy Production

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United States Department of Agriculture

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In the United States, climate change is likely to increase average daily temperatures and the frequency of heat waves, which can reduce meat and milk production in animals. Methods that livestock producers use to mitigate thermal stress-including modifica-tions to animal management or housing-tend to increase production costs and capital expenditures. Dairy cows are particularly sensitive to heat stress, and the dairy sector has been estimated to bear over half of the costs of current heat stress to the livestock industry. In this report, we use operation-level economic data coupled with finely scaled climate data to estimate how the local thermal environment affects U.S. dairies' effec-tiveness at producing outputs with a given level of inputs. We use this information to estimate the potential decline in milk production in 2030 resulting from climate change-induced heat stress. For four climate model scenarios, the results indicate modest heat stress-related production declines over the next 20 years, with the largest declines occur-ring in the South.

Release date Australia

December 9th, 2014

Author

United States Department of Agriculture

Audience

General (US: Trade)

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216x280x2

ISBN-13

9781505398557

Product ID

37716362

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