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Annual impact of environment on health and general well-being of animals in agriculture totals is at least $8 billion.

Summer heat stress reduces milk production rate and reproductive efficiency of dairy cows to produce an annual loss of $5-6 billion.

More than 22 million acres of fescue produced for over 7 million cattle are infected with a fungus. Consumption of infected fescue and exposure to heat stress produces reproductive losses and reduced weight gain that results in a $600 million annual loss to beef cattle producers.

Heat stress depressed profitability of swine production, with reduced feed intake, growth rate, lean tissue accretion, lactation.

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