The Census of Agriculture, produced by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), provides a complete count of America's farms, ranches and the people who grow our food. The census is conducted every five years, most recently in 2022, and provides an in-depth look at the agricultural industry. This layer was produced from data obtained from the USDA National Agriculture Statistics Service (NASS) Large Datasets download page. The data were transformed and prepared for publishing using the Pivot Table geoprocessing tool in ArcGIS Pro and joined to county boundaries. The county boundaries are 2022 vintage and come from Living Atlas ACS 2022 feature layers.Dataset SummaryPhenomenon Mapped: Cattle productionGeographic Extent: 48 contiguous United States, Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto RicoProjection: Web Mercator Auxiliary SphereSource: USDA National Agricultural Statistics ServiceUpdate Frequency: 5 yearsData Vintage: 2022Publication Date: April 2024AttributesNote that some values are suppressed as "Withheld to avoid disclosing data for individual operations", "Not applicable", or "Less than half the rounding unit". These have been coded in the data as -999, -888, and -777 respectively. You should account for these values when symbolizing or doing any calculations.Many cattle production commodity fields are broken out into 6 or 7 ranges based on the number of head of cattle. For space reasons, a general sample of the fields is listed here.Commodities included in this layer: Cattle, (Excl Cows) - Inventory - Inventory of Cattle, (Excl Cows): (By number of head)Cattle, (Excl Cows) - InventoryCattle, (Excl Cows) - Operations with Inventory - Inventory of Cattle, (Excl Cows): (By number of head)Cattle, (Excl Cows) - Operations with InventoryCattle, Calves - Operations with Sales - Sales of Calves: (By number of head)Cattle, Calves - Operations with SalesCattle, Calves - Sales, Measured in Head - Sales of Calves: (By number of head)Cattle, Calves - Sales, Measured in HeadCattle, Calves, Veal, Raised or Sold - Number of OperationsCattle, Cows - Inventory; Cattle, Cows - Operations with InventoryCattle, Cows, Beef - Inventory - Inventory of Beef Cows: (By number of head)Cattle, Cows, Beef - InventoryCattle, Cows, Beef - Operations with Inventory - Inventory of Beef Cows: (By number of head)Cattle, Cows, Beef - Operations with InventoryCattle, Cows, Milk - Inventory - Inventory of Milk Cows: (By number of head)Cattle, Cows, Milk - InventoryCattle, Cows, Milk - Operations with Inventory - Inventory of Milk Cows: (By number of head)Cattle, Cows, Milk - Operations with InventoryCattle, >= 500 lbs - Operations with Sales - Sales of Cattle >= 500 lbs: (By number of head)Cattle, >= 500 lbs - Operations with SalesCattle, >= 500 lbs - Sales, Measured in Head - Sales of Cattle >= 500 lbs: (By number of head)Cattle, >= 500 lbs - Sales, Measured in HeadCattle, Heifers, >= 500 lbs, Milk Replacement, Production Contract - Operations with ProductionCattle, Heifers, >= 500 lbs, Milk Replacement, Production Contract - Production, Measured in HeadCattle, Incl Calves - Inventory - Inventory of Cattle, Incl Calves: (By number of head)Cattle, Incl Calves - InventoryCattle, Incl Calves - Operations with Inventory - Inventory of Cattle, Incl Calves: (By number of head)Cattle, Incl Calves - Operations with InventoryCattle, Incl Calves - Operations with Sales - Sales of Cattle, Incl Calves: (By number of head)Cattle, Incl Calves - Operations with SalesCattle, Incl Calves - Sales, Measured in US Dollars ($)Cattle, Incl Calves - Sales, Measured in Head - Sales of Cattle, Incl Calves: (By number of head)Cattle, Incl Calves - Sales, Measured in HeadCattle, On Feed - Inventory - Inventory of Cattle On Feed: (By number of head)Cattle, On Feed - InventoryCattle, On Feed - Operations with Inventory - Inventory of Cattle On Feed: (By number of head)Cattle, On Feed - Operations with InventoryCattle, On Feed - Operations with Sales For Slaughter - Sales of Cattle On Feed: (By number of head)Cattle, On Feed - Operations with Sales For SlaughterCattle, On Feed - Sales For Slaughter, Measured in Head - Sales of Cattle On Feed: (By number of head)Cattle, On Feed - Sales For Slaughter, Measured in HeadCattle, Production Contract, On Feed - Operations with ProductionCattle, Production Contract, On Feed - Production, Measured in HeadGeography NoteIn Alaska, one or more county-equivalent entities (borough, census area, city, municipality) are included in an agriculture census area.What can you do with this layer?This layer is designed for data visualization. Identify features by clicking on the map to reveal the pre-configured pop-up. You may change the field(s) being symbolized. When symbolizing other fields, you will need to update the popup accordingly. Simple summary statistics are supported by this data.Questions?Please leave a comment below if you have a question about this layer, and we will get back to you as soon as possible.

United States Cattle Inventory: Cattle & Calves: Cows & Heifers That Have Calved: At the Beginning of the Yr: Milk Cows data was reported at 9,349.300 Head th in 2025. This records an increase from the previous number of 9,346.800 Head th for 2024. United States Cattle Inventory: Cattle & Calves: Cows & Heifers That Have Calved: At the Beginning of the Yr: Milk Cows data is updated yearly, averaging 9,349.300 Head th from Dec 1926 (Median) to 2025, with 17 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 9,450.400 Head th in 2021 and a record low of 9,208.600 Head th in 2014. United States Cattle Inventory: Cattle & Calves: Cows & Heifers That Have Calved: At the Beginning of the Yr: Milk Cows data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Economic Research Service. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.RI018: Cattle Inventory.

This EnviroAtlas dataset summarizes by county the number of farm operations with cattle and the number of heads they manage. The data come from the Census of Agriculture, which is administered every five years by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), and include the years 2002, 2007, 2012, and 2017. The Census classifies cattle managed on operations as beef cows, dairy cows, or other cattle (which encompasses heifers, steers, bulls, and calves). Data regarding all three categories are displayed in this layer. Operations are categorized into small, medium, or large, based on how many heads they manage. For each county and Census year, the dataset reports the number of farm operations that manage cattle, the number of heads on their property at the end of the Census year, and a breakdown of the operations into small, medium, and large. This dataset was produced by the US EPA to support research and online mapping activities related to EnviroAtlas. EnviroAtlas (https://www.epa.gov/enviroatlas) allows the user to interact with a web-based, easy-to-use, mapping application to view and analyze multiple ecosystem services for the contiguous United States. The dataset is available as downloadable data (https://edg.epa.gov/data/Public/ORD/EnviroAtlas) or as an EnviroAtlas map service. Additional descriptive information about each attribute in this dataset can be found in its associated EnviroAtlas Fact Sheet (https://www.epa.gov/enviroatlas/enviroatlas-fact-sheets).

How many cattle are in the world? The global live cattle population amounted to about 1.57 billion heads in 2023, up from approximately 1.51 million in 2021. Cows as livestock The domestication of cattle began as early as 10,000 to 5,000 years ago. From ancient times up to the present, cattle are bred to provide meat and dairy. Cattle are also employed as draft animals to plow the fields or transport heavy objects. Cattle hide is used for the production of leather, and dung for fuel and agricultural fertilizer. In 2022, India was home to the highest number of milk cows in the world. Cattle farming in the United States Cattle meat such as beef and veal is one of the most widely consumed types of meat across the globe, and is particularly popular in the United States. The United States is the top producer of beef and veal of any country worldwide. In 2021, beef production in the United States reached 12.6 million metric tons. Beef production appears to be following a positive trend in the United States. More than 33.07 million cattle were slaughtered both commercially and in farms annually in the United States in 2019, up from 33 million in the previous year.

In the U.S., there have been approximately three times more beef cows than dairy cows each year since 2001. As of 2024, it was estimated that there were about 28 million beef cows and only about 9.3 million dairy cows. Beef vs. dairy cows Both beef and dairy cows are bred for their respective purposes and farmers often look for different qualities in each. Dairy cows are often bigger, as they can produce a larger volume of milk. Beef cows on the other hand are generally shorter and there is more emphasis on their muscle growth, among other qualities. In 2022, over 28 billion pounds of beef were produced in the United States. U.S. milk production and consumption The United States was among the top consumers of milk worldwide in 2022, surpassed only by India and the European Union. The annual consumption of milk in the U.S. that year was just under 21 million metric tons. To keep up with this level of consumption, milk production in the U.S. has increased by over 60 billion pounds since 1999 and is expected to exceed 228 billion pounds by 2023. California and Wisconsin were the top producing states as of 2022, producing about 41.8 and 31.9 billion pounds of milk, respectively.

The Census of Agriculture provides a detailed picture every five years of U.S. farms and ranches and the people who operate them. Conducted by USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service, the 2012 Census of Agriculture collected more than six million data items directly from farmers. The Ag Census Web Maps application makes this information available at the county level through a few clicks. The maps and accompanying data help users visualize, download, and analyze Census of Agriculture data in a geospatial context. Resources in this dataset:Resource Title: Ag Census Web Maps. File Name: Web Page, url: https://www.nass.usda.gov/Publications/AgCensus/2012/Online_Resources/Ag_Census_Web_Maps/Overview/index.php/ The interactive map application assembles maps and statistics from the 2012 Census of Agriculture in five broad categories:

Crops and Plants – Data on harvested acreage for major field crops, hay, and other forage crops, as well as acreage data for vegetables, fruits, tree nuts, and berries. Economics – Data on agriculture sales, farm income, government payments from conservation and farm programs, amounts received from loans, a broad range of production expenses, and value of buildings and equipment. Farms – Information on farm size, ownership, and Internet access, as well as data on total land in farms, land use, irrigation, fertilized cropland, and enrollment in crop insurance programs. Livestock and Animals – Statistics on cattle and calves, cows and heifers, milk cows, and other cattle, as well as hogs, sheep, goats, horses, and broilers. Operators – Statistics on hired farm labor, tenure, land rented or leased, primary occupation of farm operator, and demographic characteristics such as age, sex, race/ethnicity, and residence location.

The Ag Census Web Maps application allows you to:

Select a map to display from a the above five general categories and associated subcategories. Zoom and pan to a specific area; use the inset buttons to center the map on the continental United States; zoom to a specific state; and show the state mask to fade areas surrounding the state. Create and print maps showing the variation in a single data item across the United States (for example, average value of agricultural products sold per farm). Select a county and view and download the county’s data for a general category. Download the U.S. county-level dataset of mapped values for all categories in Microsoft ® Excel format.

This dataset provides information on the number of milk cows, production of milk per cow and total milk production by state and region in the United States from the year 1970 to 2021.

Live Cattle rose to 239.78 USd/Lbs on August 22, 2025, up 0.47% from the previous day. Over the past month, Live Cattle's price has risen 5.62%, and is up 31.33% compared to the same time last year, according to trading on a contract for difference (CFD) that tracks the benchmark market for this commodity. Live Cattle - values, historical data, forecasts and news - updated on August of 2025.

The dataset was collected from small villages in eastern Chinese Inner Mongolia Autonomous region, which is known as the hometown of Horqin cattle. The dataset contains side and back views of 72 cattle. Each cattle is accompanied by detailed annotations, including oblique body length, withers height, heart girth, hip length, as well as body weight among other crucial data points. At present, the number of image datasets that can be used to analyze cattle is very limited. In the public datasets, most of them contain multiple cows in each image, which is mainly for recognition tasks, and it is impossible to determine the detailed feature points of each cow to measure the body size. This data set allows us to perform more complex estimation tasks such as automated measurements and weight prediction. In the field of computer vision, utilizing this dataset can facilitate the construction of deep learning models to develop an automated livestock monitoring system. Improve the management efficiency and economic benefits of animal husbandry.

The environmental impacts of beef cattle production and their effects on the overall sustainability of beef have become a national and international concern. Our objective was to quantify important environmental impacts of beef cattle production in the United States. Surveys and visits of farms, ranches and feedlots were conducted throughout seven regions (Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, Northern Plains, Southern Plains, Northwest and Southwest) to determine common practices and characteristics of cattle production. These data along with other information sources were used to create about 150 representative production systems throughout the country, which were simulated with the Integrated Farm System Model using local soil and climate data. The simulations quantified the performance and environmental impacts of beef cattle production systems for each region. A farm-gate life cycle assessment was used to quantify resource use and emissions for all production systems including traditional beef breeds and cull animals from the dairy industry. Regional and national totals were determined as the sum of the production system outputs multiplied by the number of cattle represented by each simulated system. The average annual greenhouse gas and reactive N emissions associated with beef cattle production over the past five years were determined to be 243 ± 26 Tg carbon dioxide equivalents (CO2e) and 1760 ± 136 Gg N, respectively. Total fossil energy use was found to be 569 ± 53 PJ and blue water consumption was 23.2 ± 3.5 TL. Environmental intensities expressed per kg of carcass weight produced were 21.3 ± 2.3 kg CO2e, 155 ± 12 g N, 50.0 ± 4.7 MJ, and 2034 ± 309 L, respectively. These farm-gate values are being combined with post farm-gate sources of packing, processing, distribution, retail, consumption and waste handling to produce a full life cycle assessment of U.S. beef. This study is the most detailed, yet comprehensive, study conducted to date to provide baseline measures for the sustainability of U.S. beef. Resources in this dataset:Resource Title: Appendix A. Supplementary Data - Tables S1 to S8 (docx). File Name: Web Page, url: https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S0308521X18305675-mmc1.docx Direct download, docx.

Table S1. Important characteristics of farms and ranches simulated throughout seven regions of the U.S.

Table S2. Important characteristics of representative finishing facilities simulated in seven regions of the U.S.

Table S3. Important characteristics of dairy farms simulated throughout seven regions of the U.S.

Table S4. Summary of 25 years of weather data (daily solar radiation, daily mean temperature, annual precipitation and daily wind speed)1 used to simulate beef cattle operations in each area of the eastern regions.

Table S5. Soil characteristics used for locations simulated across the U.S.

Table S6. Cattle numbers by state and region as obtained or estimated from NASS (2017).

Table S7. Cattle numbers by state and region divided between traditional beef and dairy breeds as obtained or estimated from NASS (2017).

Table S8. Important resource inputs and emissions from representative cow-calf, stocker / background and feedlot operations expressed per unit of final carcass weight (CW) produced.

Feeder Cattle rose to 360.36 USd/Lbs on August 22, 2025, up 1.12% from the previous day. Over the past month, Feeder Cattle's price has risen 8.70%, and is up 48.39% compared to the same time last year, according to trading on a contract for difference (CFD) that tracks the benchmark market for this commodity. Feeder Cattle - values, historical data, forecasts and news - updated on August of 2025.

Purpose: The need to assess the sustainability attributes of the United States beef industry is underscored by its importance to food security locally and globally. A life cycle assessment (LCA) of the US beef value chain was conducted to develop baseline information on the environmental impacts of the industry including metrics of the cradle-to-farm gate (feed production, cow-calf, and feedlot operations) and post-farm gate (packing, case-ready, retail, restaurant, and consumer) segments. Methods: Cattle production (cradle-to-farm gate) data were obtained using the integrated farm system model (IFSM) supported with production data from the Roman L. Hruska US Meat Animal Research Center (USMARC). Primary data for the packing and case-ready phases were obtained from packers that jointly processed nearly 60% of US beef while retail and restaurant primary data represented 8 and 6%, respectively, of each sector. Consumer data were obtained from public databases and literature. The functional unit or consumer benefit (CB) was 1 kg of consumed, boneless, edible beef. The relative environmental impacts of processes along the full beef value chain were assessed using a third party validated BASF Corporation Eco-Efficiency Analysis methodology. Results and discussion: Value chain LCA results indicated that the feed and cattle production phases were the largest contributors to most environmental impact categories. Impact metrics included water emissions (7005 L diluted water eq/CB), cumulative energy demand (1110 MJ/CB), and land use (47.4 m2a eq/CB). Air emissions were acidification potential (726 g SO2 eq/CB), photochemical ozone creation potential (146.5 g C2H4 eq/CB), global warming potential (48.4 kg CO2 eq/CB), and ozone depletion potential (1686 μg CFC11 eq/CB). The remaining metrics calculated were abiotic depletion potential (10.3 mg Ag eq/CB), consumptive water use (2558 L eq/CB), and solid waste (369 g municipal waste eq/CB). Of the relative points adding up to 1 for each impact category, the feed phase contributed 0.93 to the human toxicity potential. Conclusions: This LCA is the first of its kind for beef and has been third party verified in accordance with ISO 14040:2006a and 14044:2006b and 14045:2012 standards. An expanded nationwide study of beef cattle production is now being performed with region-specific cattle production data aimed at identifying region-level benchmarks and opportunities for further improvement in US beef sustainability. Resources in this dataset:Resource Title: Electronic Supplementary Material ESM 1 - Tables S1 to S11 (docx). File Name: Web Page, url: https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art:10.1007/s11367-018-1464-6/MediaObjects/11367_2018_1464_MOESM1_ESM.docx Direct download, docx. Table S1: Feed phase input data (resource use and emissions) from USMARC and IFSM simulations used in the U.S. beef life cycle impact assessment and sources of their life-cycle inventories (LCI). Table S2: Cattle phase input data (resource use and emissions) from USMARC and IFSM simulations in the U.S. beef life cycle impact assessment and the sources of their respective life-cycle inventories (LCI). Table S3: Packing and case-ready phases input data (resource use and emissions) used in the U.S. beef life cycle impact assessment and the sources of their respective life-cycle inventories (LCI). Allocation factor of case-ready (i.e. % packaged at case ready) = 0.63. Table S4: Retail and consumer phases input data (resource use and emissions) used in U.S. beef life cycle impact assessment and their respective life-cycle inventory (LCI) sources. Allocation factor for retail and consumer (i.e. at-home consumption portion of total consumption sold through retail) = 0.47. Table S5: Restaurant phase input data (resource use and emissions) used in U.S. beef life cycle impact assessment and their respective life-cycle inventory (LCI) sources. Allocation factor (i.e. restaurant fraction of total beef consumption) = 0.53. Table S6: Essential raw materials considered in the U.S. beef life cycle impact assessment and respective weighting factors used for the determination of their Abiotic Depletion Potential (ADP). Table S7: Scoring system for toxic properties described by H-phrases for U.S. beef life cycle impact assessment (Landsiedel and Saling (2002) before our modification). Table S8: Land occupation and transformation weighting factors for U.S. beef life cycle impact assessment based on Ecosystem Damage Potentials (EDPs) from the Ecoinvent 2.2 life cycle inventory database (Frischknecht et al. 2005). Table S9: Air emissions and their respective weighting (equivalence) factors used in U.S. beef life cycle impact assessment. Table S10: Solid waste relative disposal costs used in U.S. beef life cycle impact assessment (Klein 2011). Table S11: Water emissions categories and their respective weighting factors based on regional regulatory limits used in the U.S. beef life cycle assessment.

This data and code archive provides all the files that are necessary to replicate the empirical analyses that are presented in the paper "Climate impacts and adaptation in US dairy systems 1981-2018" authored by Maria Gisbert-Queral, Arne Henningsen, Bo Markussen, Meredith T. Niles, Ermias Kebreab, Angela J. Rigden, and Nathaniel D. Mueller and published in 'Nature Food' (2021, DOI: 10.1038/s43016-021-00372-z). The empirical analyses are entirely conducted with the "R" statistical software using the add-on packages "car", "data.table", "dplyr", "ggplot2", "grid", "gridExtra", "lmtest", "lubridate", "magrittr", "nlme", "OneR", "plyr", "pracma", "quadprog", "readxl", "sandwich", "tidyr", "usfertilizer", and "usmap". The R code was written by Maria Gisbert-Queral and Arne Henningsen with assistance from Bo Markussen. Some parts of the data preparation and the analyses require substantial amounts of memory (RAM) and computational power (CPU). Running the entire analysis (all R scripts consecutively) on a laptop computer with 32 GB physical memory (RAM), 16 GB swap memory, an 8-core Intel Xeon CPU E3-1505M @ 3.00 GHz, and a GNU/Linux/Ubuntu operating system takes around 11 hours. Running some parts in parallel can speed up the computations but bears the risk that the computations terminate when two or more memory-demanding computations are executed at the same time.

This data and code archive contains the following files and folders:

* README
Description: text file with this description

* flowchart.pdf
Description: a PDF file with a flow chart that illustrates how R scripts transform the raw data files to files that contain generated data sets and intermediate results and, finally, to the tables and figures that are presented in the paper.

* runAll.sh
Description: a (bash) shell script that runs all R scripts in this data and code archive sequentially and in a suitable order (on computers with a "bash" shell such as most computers with MacOS, GNU/Linux, or Unix operating systems)

* Folder "DataRaw"
Description: folder for raw data files
This folder contains the following files:

- DataRaw/COWS.xlsx
Description: MS-Excel file with the number of cows per county
Source: USDA NASS Quickstats
Observations: All available counties and years from 2002 to 2012

- DataRaw/milk_state.xlsx
Description: MS-Excel file with average monthly milk yields per cow
Source: USDA NASS Quickstats
Observations: All available states from 1981 to 2018

- DataRaw/TMAX.csv
Description: CSV file with daily maximum temperatures
Source: PRISM Climate Group (spatially averaged)
Observations: All counties from 1981 to 2018

- DataRaw/VPD.csv
Description: CSV file with daily maximum vapor pressure deficits
Source: PRISM Climate Group (spatially averaged)
Observations: All counties from 1981 to 2018

- DataRaw/countynamesandID.csv
Description: CSV file with county names, state FIPS codes, and county FIPS codes
Source: US Census Bureau
Observations: All counties

- DataRaw/statecentroids.csv
Descriptions: CSV file with latitudes and longitudes of state centroids
Source: Generated by Nathan Mueller from Matlab state shapefiles using the Matlab "centroid" function
Observations: All states

* Folder "DataGenerated"
Description: folder for data sets that are generated by the R scripts in this data and code archive. In order to reproduce our entire analysis 'from scratch', the files in this folder should be deleted. We provide these generated data files so that parts of the analysis can be replicated (e.g., on computers with insufficient memory to run all parts of the analysis).

* Folder "Results"
Description: folder for intermediate results that are generated by the R scripts in this data and code archive. In order to reproduce our entire analysis 'from scratch', the files in this folder should be deleted. We provide these intermediate results so that parts of the analysis can be replicated (e.g., on computers with insufficient memory to run all parts of the analysis).

* Folder "Figures"
Description: folder for the figures that are generated by the R scripts in this data and code archive and that are presented in our paper. In order to reproduce our entire analysis 'from scratch', the files in this folder should be deleted. We provide these figures so that people who replicate our analysis can more easily compare the figures that they get with the figures that are presented in our paper. Additionally, this folder contains CSV files with the data that are required to reproduce the figures.

* Folder "Tables"
Description: folder for the tables that are generated by the R scripts in this data and code archive and that are presented in our paper. In order to reproduce our entire analysis 'from scratch', the files in this folder should be deleted. We provide these tables so that people who replicate our analysis can more easily compare the tables that they get with the tables that are presented in our paper.

* Folder "logFiles"
Description: the shell script runAll.sh writes the output of each R script that it runs into this folder. We provide these log files so that people who replicate our analysis can more easily compare the R output that they get with the R output that we got.

* PrepareCowsData.R
Description: R script that imports the raw data set COWS.xlsx and prepares it for the further analyses

* PrepareWeatherData.R
Description: R script that imports the raw data sets TMAX.csv, VPD.csv, and countynamesandID.csv, merges these three data sets, and prepares the data for the further analyses

* PrepareMilkData.R
Description: R script that imports the raw data set milk_state.xlsx and prepares it for the further analyses

* CalcFrequenciesTHI_Temp.R
Description: R script that calculates the frequencies of days with the different THI bins and the different temperature bins in each month for each state

* CalcAvgTHI.R
Description: R script that calculates the average THI in each state

* PreparePanelTHI.R
Description: R script that creates a state-month panel/longitudinal data set with exposure to the different THI bins

* PreparePanelTemp.R
Description: R script that creates a state-month panel/longitudinal data set with exposure to the different temperature bins

* PreparePanelFinal.R
Description: R script that creates the state-month panel/longitudinal data set with all variables (e.g., THI bins, temperature bins, milk yield) that are used in our statistical analyses

* EstimateTrendsTHI.R
Description: R script that estimates the trends of the frequencies of the different THI bins within our sampling period for each state in our data set

* EstimateModels.R
Description: R script that estimates all model specifications that are used for generating results that are presented in the paper or for comparing or testing different model specifications

* CalcCoefStateYear.R
Description: R script that calculates the effects of each THI bin on the milk yield for all combinations of states and years based on our 'final' model specification

* SearchWeightMonths.R
Description: R script that estimates our 'final' model specification with different values of the weight of the temporal component relative to the weight of the spatial component in the temporally and spatially correlated error term

* TestModelSpec.R
Description: R script that applies Wald tests and Likelihood-Ratio tests to compare different model specifications and creates Table S10

* CreateFigure1a.R
Description: R script that creates subfigure a of Figure 1

* CreateFigure1b.R
Description: R script that creates subfigure b of Figure 1

* CreateFigure2a.R
Description: R script that creates subfigure a of Figure 2

* CreateFigure2b.R
Description: R script that creates subfigure b of Figure 2

* CreateFigure2c.R
Description: R script that creates subfigure c of Figure 2

* CreateFigure3.R
Description: R script that creates the subfigures of Figure 3

* CreateFigure4.R
Description: R script that creates the subfigures of Figure 4

* CreateFigure5_TableS6.R
Description: R script that creates the subfigures of Figure 5 and Table S6

* CreateFigureS1.R
Description: R script that creates Figure S1

* CreateFigureS2.R
Description: R script that creates Figure S2

* CreateTableS2_S3_S7.R
Description: R script that creates Tables S2, S3, and S7

* CreateTableS4_S5.R
Description: R script that creates Tables S4 and S5

* CreateTableS8.R
Description: R script that creates Table S8

* CreateTableS9.R
Description: R script that creates Table S9

India's cattle inventory amounted to about *** million in 2023. In comparison, the global cattle population stood at over ***********, India had the highest cattle population followed by Brazil, China and the United States that year. Where are cattle bred in India? As one of the leading dairy producers and consumers worldwide, cattle in the south Asian country were bred mainly in the rural areas. However, its population was spread unevenly across the vast land. Uttar Pradesh ranked first in terms of milk production, followed by Rajasthan, and Madhya Pradesh in 2023. Contextualizing the holiness of the Indian cow Considered a sacred animal by Hindus in India, the cow is associated with several gods and goddesses. This deep religious and cultural significance has led to communal tensions. In 2014, the government established the Rashtriya Gokul Mission (RGM) to conserve and develop indigenous breeds of cows and buffaloes. While the general goal was well-received, it aligns with the underlying Hindu nationalist narrative of the current government.

2092 Global import shipment records of Cattle Feed with prices, volume & current Buyer's suppliers relationships based on actual Global export trade database.

10202 Global export shipment records of Cow Hide with prices, volume & current Buyer's suppliers relationships based on actual Global export trade database.

This statistic shows the number of bovine tuberculosis infected cattle detected at slaughter in the U.S. from 2003 to 2017. According to the data, there were 38 infected cattle detected at slaughter in 2003 and just 13 cattle detected in 2017. Bovine tuberculosis is an infectious disease that is transmittable to both humans and cattle. TB is spread between cattle through the inhalation of infectious particles in the air or through infected feed.

The United States produced about ***** billion pounds of milk for human consumption in 2024. In 2000, this figure amounted to around ***** billion pounds. The volume of cow milk produced worldwide has risen steadily over the last several years. U.S. milk market While milk production has seen an increase over the last several years, milk retail sales have been dropping. The retail price of milk has been fluctuating for the past several years and peaked in 2022 at **** U.S. dollars per gallon. Leading U.S. milk brands Among the dairy brands in the U.S., private label milk has a higher level of sales than any name brand whole milk. Among name brands of whole milk, Hood generated the most dollar sales, at over *** million U.S. dollars in 2022. In the flavored milk category, the leading name brand was TruMoo, which sold nearly ** million units in 2018. However, private label flavored milk sold many more units than even the leading name brand.

aSingle-step genomic-BLUP was used to obtain marker effects.bGenes linked to clinical mastitis are in bold face. Any genes with start and stop positions within or across the window were considered.Summary of the 10 windows that explained the most of genetic variance for clinical mastitis in US Holstein dairy cows, with a list of annotated genes in the proximity of each window.

The USGS, in cooperation with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM), created a series of geospatial products using historic aerial imagery and Structure from Motion (SfM) photogrammetry methods. A high-resolution orthomosaic of the South Cow Mountain Recreational Area was generated from stereo historical aerial imagery acquired in by the BLM in May of1977. The aerial imagery were downloaded from the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Data Center's USGS Single Aerial Frame Photo archive and an orthomosaic was created using USGS guidelines. Photo alignment, error reduction, and dense point cloud generation followed guidelines documented in Over, J.R., Ritchie, A.C., Kranenburg, C.J., Brown, J.A., Buscombe, D., Noble, T., Sherwood, C.R., Warrick, J.A., and Wernette, P.A., 2021, Processing coastal imagery with Agisoft Metashape Professional Edition, version 1.6— Structure from motion workflow documentation: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2021–1039, 46 p. ...