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Dairy R&D in SA
Discipline: mastitis; Key words: bulk tank testing, bacteria counts, SCC, psychrotropic bacteria, cleanliness.
Discipline: consumption; Keywords: communal areas, survey milk production, consumption, species, sour milk.
The Dairy Genomics Program (DGP) was initiated in 2016 with the primary aim to establish a reference population for dairy breeds which can be used to develop genomic estimated breeding values (GEBVs) which according to principle and function should improve the EBV’s , as calculated in the conventional way. The reference population (RP) was established in Phase 1 of the DGP which ended in March 2019 and the question was how did it benefit us.
At the recent Large Herds conference held at Port Elizabeth between 2 and 5 June 2019 there were two poster presentations on developing analyses systems to add value to existing program outputs which should assist farmers and consultants in strategizing, breeding and management. Here are the Abstracts:
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PROJECTS, CAPACITIES AND PUBLICATIONS BY PROGRAMME LEADER AT INSTITUTION.
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Banga, Cuthbert and others - ARC-Irene.
Projects:
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Discipline: environment; Keywords: environmental science, national security, ecological restoration, benefits and costs, system dynamics, opportunity cost of degradation.
Discipline: economics; Keywords: milk yield, lifetime production, age at first calving, lifetime profit margin, modelling.
Discipline: lactation; Keywords: high milk yield, simulation model, extended lactation, calving interval, profitability.
Discipline: environment; Key words: environmental crisis, easement, assets, restoration, economics, accounting, natural capital.
Discipline: lactation; Key words: early post-partum, feed intake, BCS, milk production, maize particle size, TMR.