As thoughts of spring planting and warmer temperatures develop, now is the time to start preparing your heat stress management plans. Heat stress can occur even in the early spring when cows haven’t acclimated to the ever-fluctuating temperatures or haven’t shed their winter coats.

Of the four types of cooling (conduction, convection, radiation or evaporation), the most utilized are radiation and evaporative cooling, whether it is the environment or the cow.

The C.O.W.S. program has been successful in working with dairy producers and their teams to unlock bottlenecks in their operations.