by Heinz Meissner
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Discipline: stress; Keywords: dairy cows, heat stress, physiology, rectal temperature, temperature-humidity index.
Discipline: cheese; Keywords: cheese quality, fermented products, nutritional qualities, raw milk.
Discipline: mastitis; Keywords: Streptococcus uberis, SCC, clinical mastitis, biofilm, AMR, antimicrobials, susceptibility.
Discipline: pasture, grazing; Keywords: Pasture yield optimization, nitrogen use efficiency; nitrogen fertilization, farm-N-balance, carbon footprint.
Discipline: mastitis; Keywords: economic loss, SCC, TMR and pasture-based systems, failure cost, preventive cost.
Mastitis results in large economic loss to both farmer and processor. In addition it has welfare implications for the cow and antimicrobial resistance concerns. Therefore, describing and analysing the measures used to prevent the disease and to minimize the losses remain important. For example, somatic cell count (SCC) directly affects revenue from the sale of milk and in one of the investigations the revenue loss was studied.
Discipline: management; economics; Keywords: cattle, world trade, methane emission, photosynthesis, carbon sequestration, grazing capacity, cover crops
Discipline: environment; Keywords: Greenhouse gas, system dynamic model, methane, FPCM, feed sources, cow’s physiological processes.
Discipline: mastitis; Keywords: SCC, herd testing, rotary parlour, antimicrobial sensitivity, systematic extension and training, summer rise in SCC, year effect.
Discipline: dairy & health; Keywords: A1 & A2 milk, histidine, Holstein, BCM-7, autism, artherosclerosis; insulin dependent diabetes mellitus.
Discipline: mastitis; Keywords: CMCT, udder health, composite milk samples, SCC, teat end vacuum, bulk tank testing, psygrotrophic and thermoduric bacteria.