Extra Cheese, Please: Farmers Are Squeezing Cows for Fattier Milk

People are consuming extra cheese and butter. That has dairy farmers scrambling to get their cows to supply fattier milk.

The efforts embrace utilizing completely different cow breeds and feed mixes, and ensuring animals are comfy and don’t get too sizzling. The result’s that the typical quantity of butterfat in milk produced by U.S. dairy herds has climbed previous 4% and above the earlier file set throughout World Warfare II.