Dairy R&D in SA

Discipline: grazing/forages; Key words: forage herds, chicory, plantain, dry matter yield, herb-grass mixture.

Discipline: environment; Key words: greenhouse gas emissions, global baseline, milk yield, target, non-cow associated factors. 

Discipline: grazing/pastures; Key words: cultivated pastures, fertilisation, nutrient cycling, phosphorus, soil fertility

Discipline: mastitis; Key words: bovine mastitis, ethnoveterinary medicine, antibacterial activity,  cytotoxicity. 

Discipline: development; Key words: entrepreneurship, dairy cattle, food security, indigenous knowledge systems.

The authors referenced below did a case study in the local municipality areas of Matatiele and Groblersdal to explore and identify the drivers of dairy smallholder farmer decisions. They found the following as determining factors:

Discipline: development; Key words: entrepreneurship, dairy cattle, food security, indigenous knowledge systems.

The authors referenced below did a case study in the local municipality areas of Matatiele and Groblersdal to explore and identify the drivers of dairy smallholder farmer decisions. They found the following as determining factors:

1. PROJECTS, CAPACITIES AND PUBLICATIONS BY PROGRAMME LEADER AT INSTITUTION.

    

1. Banga, Cuthbert and others - ARC-Irene.

   Projects:

Discipline: food safety; Key words: Bacillus cereus, spores, Extended Shelf Life milk, CIP, heat and chemicals, biofilms.

 Discipline: udder health; Key words: SCC, quarter milk samples, composite samples, threshold, udder infection. 

Discipline: contamination; Key words: identification, spoilage, Chryseobacterium, Empedobacter, dairy