Clinical Lameness in Dairy Cows in the Midwestern United States

The economic cost of lameness in dairy cattle has recently been reported as $7.69 per cow at risk of lameness (per cow in the herd) per year.1 This work, from herds with a 5% reported annual incidence of lameness, listed losses from culling, treatment and prevention costs, and death, but failed to include milk loss other than that from withheld milk due to treatment.