Magazine on Mastitis and Milk quality for the dairy professional
This is the first of two articles on approaches to reducing clinical mastitis and somatic cell counts that this author has used for many years. It has proved successful provided the farmer engages in the process. Of course, there are...
Jim Davenport is an award winning dairy farmer in New York State in the USA…. This content is for M²-DIGITAL, M²-PREMIUM and NMC members only.Login or Join Now and get instant Premium access....
Bovine mastitis is a very common disease in dairy herds worldwide. In Switzerland, the incidence density is 32.7 cases per 100 cow years (Stärk et al., 1997), resulting in total costs of about CHF 130 Mio. per year (Heiniger et…...
Dairy cow health and welfare can, with relatively simple and cost-efficient means, be improved by disputing established management practices and make adaptations to the physiology and needs of the modern, high-yielding cow. Presently, it is generally recommended that the dry …
