21 Mar 2024

Climate change changing the way farm animals are cared for

From Afternoons, 1:25 pm on 21 March 2024

Air conditioned indoor enclosures may well become the norm for beef and dairy herds in Australia as the temperatures keep rising across the continent.

It's predicted that by 2030 more than a third of Australia's cows will need to be housed indoors to protect them from the extreme heat

Karen Romano is National Feeding and Farm Systems Lead at Dairy Australia, and has been looking at the move to 'containment farming' for the future.

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Photo: RNZ / Alexa Cook