Heat stress has been estimated to cost the dairy industry $897 million, and one of the most effective methods to alleviate heat stress is to cool the cow directly using low-pressure soaking. This article will focus on feedlane soaking but will also touch on other areas where soaking is used.

Biological systems are amazing. One can’t even begin to comprehend the number of signaling pathways and exchanges required for life to exist, and what is more profound is so many of those systems are involuntary.

“The low pregnancy rate issue in beef cows this fall seems to be pretty pervasive but also varies from herd to herd,” says John Hall, University of Idaho professor and beef extension specialist.