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

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

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