Dairy R&D in SA

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

    

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

   Projects:

   
   

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.

Discipline: infection; Key words: helminths, anthelmintic resistance, phytotherapy, bioactive forages, vaccines, grazing management.

Discipline: mastitis; Key words: teat canal, udder health, milking machine settings, milk flow, VaDia, take-off time, vented liners.

Discipline: quality; Key words: age gelation, UHT milk, plasmin. Proteases, psychro-tolerant bacteria, free fatty acids, chemicals, gases.

Discipline: mastitis; Keywords: coagulase negative staphylococci, Maldi Tof, CNS strains, routine diagnostic identification, somatic cell count.

The 2018 Progress Report of a study by Dr Inge-Marie Petzer of the Faculty of Veterinary Science of the University of Pretoria.