Quality milk at the heart of award-winning cheese

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 …

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…...

Heat stress abatement is a challenge for many producers around the world. Dairy producers could benefit by utilizing a simple metric to measure heat stress abatement strategies with the goal of motivating improvement in heat stress management on farm. The …