Livestock
In general, livestock such as poultry and swine are managed in housed, temperature controlled systems. Adjusting these systems to adapt to outside temperature changes may mitigate some of the negative impacts of climate change. However, despite current technologies to manage livestock temperatures, high summer temperatures sill cost swine producers over $300 million every year. As livestock producers adapt to climate change, management and energy costs associated with increased temperature regulation will likely increase. In the future, producers may consider selecting breeds and breed types that are genetically adapted to changed climate conditions.
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If you have cattle, you should check out Grass-Cast
The weather can be crazy in the great plains and with the changing climate, it just keeps getting crazier. For farmers…
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Managing risk on the farm
Explore USDA programs that help producers manage risk to extreme weather and climate-driven events.
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Livestock Ranching, Rangelands, and Resilience: Ensuring Adaptive Capacity in an Increasingly Variable Climate
Beginning in 2018 and concluding in 2022, the USDA Northern Plains Climate Hub helped conduct a research and outreach…
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Cost-effective strategies to Reduce Agricultural Greenhouse Gases
Crop and livestock production lead to the unintentional release of greenhouse gases. Now, farmers can do something…
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Agrivoltaics: Coming Soon to a Farm Near You?
Researchers and farmers around the country are currently experimenting and collecting data on what crops, pollinator…
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TOBI – A Decision Support Toolshed for the Beef Production Industry
“Tools for the Beef Industry”, aka TOBI, searches a database of over 550 decision support tools published by…
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Feral Swine Bomb
Feral pigs, wild hogs, razorbacks, old world swine, wild boar… feral swine go by many names but they are all the same…
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Solving the Beef
The nonprofit Asombro Institute for Science Education and the Southwest Sustainable Beef Project have released a fun,…
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Hurricane Preparation and Recovery Commodity Guides
People who live and work in the Southeastern United States are unfortunately familiar with the devastation and loss of…