Agrilab: How we deal with mastitis management in Italy

The size of the dairy farm will determine the characteristics of a milk quality program. We work with farms ranging in size from 2,000 to 10,000 milking cows. On these farms the people who make decisions are not the same…...

The 2019 International Dairy Federation Mastitis conference takes place from 14 to 16 May 2019 in Denmark with a technical tour scheduled for 17 May.

Contagious mastitis mainly causes subclinical infection resulting in raised somatic cell counts. Cell counts are measured in hundreds of thousands and a cell count of 200,000/ml is commonly referred to as 200. High cell counts are undesirable as they have…...