Magazine on Mastitis and Milk quality for the dairy professional
In the early 1990ies, when I was a young veterinary student, an eminent professor from a distinguished veterinary school gave several undergraduate courses on herd health and production management at my faculty in Slovenia. I was told that the modern …
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For me, udder health is the outcome of the interaction of many simple things of how cows are managed, such as aspects of milking, milking machine, immunity, environment, and the transition period. Bacteria are everywhere on and around the cow…...
Diagnostic tests provide insight into which cow is infected with which mastitis pathogen. The same principle applies to people when it comes to, for example, the coronavirus, and is certainly true for dairy cows when we look at mastitis-causing pathogens. …
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Every year dairy professionals (farmers, veterinarians, scientists) meet in a European country to share knowledge with each other and to discuss challenges and opportunities of dairy farming in the hosting country. The next meeting will take place in Austria, which, …
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In recent years, one saying has become very popular: “May you live in interesting times”. While seemingly a blessing, the expression is normally used ironically, but can be applied quite literally in the milk quality industry of today. What I …
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Milk quality has evolved over the last several decades from a focus on control of contagious pathogens through improvements in milking technique and blanket dry cow treatment addressing the challenges of environmental mastitis. This can be attributed in large part …
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Milk is still one of the staple foods worldwide. Milk quality is crucial for the best taste and for both a high technological and nutritional value.Therefore, the quality of the milk at the time of takeover in the dairy is …
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In the western United States we had few robotic milkers a year or so ago. We now have an increasing number of farms installing milking robots, nearly all Lely. The number of farms and number of total robots, often 10 …
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Worldwide an increasing number of dairy herds applies different types of sensor technologies to detect mastitis and other diseases. In a variety of different systems, enormous amounts of data are collected daily, at each milking. The development of new sensors …
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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…...
