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Title	Date	Discipline	Extract	Keywords
TRENDS IN UDDER HEALTH AND EMERGING MASTITIS-CAUSING PATHOGENS IN SOUTH AFRICAN DAIRY HERDS.			Discipline: mastitis;	emerging pathogens, mastitis prevalence, reverse zoonosis, South African dairy herds, udder health
WITHIN UDDER INFECTIONS IN PREGNANT HEIFERS WHICH WERE HOUSED TOGETHER AND REARED ON FRESH MILK AS CALVES.			Discipline: mastitis;	within udder infections, co-housed calves, milk-fed, Staphylococcus aureus, prevalence in heifers
Efficacy of bacteriophage therapy against mastitis-causing Staph aureus.			Discipline: mastitis;	Staphylococcus aureus, antibiotic resistance, bacteriophages
IMPORTANCE OF DEDICATED R & D FOR THE DAIRY SECTOR			Discipline: industry; Structural changes in the SA dairy industry	structure, MPO, SAMPRO, competitive science, demand-driven research, functional farming tactics
LIVE YEAST AS A SUPPLEMENT TO COWS ON LOW AND HIGH CONCENTRATE: ROUGHAGE DIETS.			Discipline: nutrition/feeding;	live yeast, concentrate:roughage ratio, milk yield, milk composition, DMI, feed efficiency
THE 2016 MILK SA MPO MASTITIS SURVEY – GENERAL UDDER HEALTH			Discipline: mastitis;	udder health, SCC, clip or flame udders, cleanliness score
WHAT CAN FARMERS DO TO LIMIT THE CARBON FOOTPRINT?			Discipline: environment; Key words: carbon footprint, efficiency, solar panels, energy-saving bulbs, fuel-efficient vehicles, good pasture management, conservation agriculture.
FURTHER PROGRESS WITH STUDIES TO ADDRESS THE PROBLEM OF MILK FLOCCULATION			Discipline: quality; Key words: milk flocculation, protease activity, Bacillus, plasminogen, heat treatment.
IS EXISTING ‘CLEANING IN PLACE’ PROCEDURES ALWAYS EFFECTIVE?			Discipline: food safety; Key words: Bacillus cereus, spores, Extended Shelf Life milk, CIP, heat and chemicals, biofilms.
A NEW NITROGEN FERTILISATION REGIME FOR MINIMUM-TILLAGE KIKUYU-RYEGRASS PASTURE IN THE SOUTHERN CAPE.			The sustainability of current nitrogen (N) fertilization regimes for minimum tillage kikuyu-ryegrass (Pennisetum clandestinum, Lolium multiflorum) pastures in the southern Cape is questioned. The guidelines, originally, were developed for conventional tillage and non-grazing systems. It may well be that these guidelines may not apply any more. In fact, there is the possibility that the N levels applied are too high with implications to both economics and leaching of unutilised N.