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Click on any of the publications below to read more about the specific topic:

Parents’ implicit perceptions of dairy milk and plant-based milk alternatives.
Discipline: consumers; Keywords: consumers, parents, milk, attitudes, plant-based alternatives.
Physical and economic performance of dairy cows managed within contrasting grassland-based milk production systems over 3 successive lactations.
Discipline: performance; Keywords: dairy cattle, fully housed, Jersey crossbreds, grassland systems.
A new method for producing superior set yogurt, focusing on heat treatment and homogenization.
Discipline: yogurt; Keywords: set yogurt, extended shelf life processing, homogenization, fat globule size.
Economics of timed artificial insemination with unsorted or sexed semen in a high-producing, pasture-based dairy production system.
Discipline: economics Keywords: timed artificial insemination, sexed semen, bio-economics, stochastic model.
Cow- and herd-level risk factors for lameness in partly housed pasture-based dairy cows.
Discipline: lameness; Keywords: dairy cow, lameness, risk factor, pasture-based, selection.
Effect of stage of lactation and dietary starch content on endocrine-metabolic status, blood amino acid concentrations, milk yield, and composition in Holstein dairy cows.
Discipline: nutrition; Keywords: dairy cow, starch level, metabolism, milk composition.
Selective dry cow therapy effect on milk yield and somatic cell count: A retrospective cohort study.
Discipline: mastitis; Keywords: drying off, milk production, composite somatic cell count, time series analysis.
Lactose oxidase: An enzymatic approach to inhibit Listeria monocytogenes in milk.
Discipline: contamination; Keywords: Listeria, lactose oxidase, milk, enzyme, lacto-peroxidase.
Effect of feeding single-dam or pooled colostrum on maternally derived immunity in dairy calves.
Discipline: calf rearing; Keywords: survival, health, immunoglobulin, heifer, birthweight.
Effect of synchronized breeding on genetic evaluations of fertility traits in dairy cattle.
Discipline: fertility; Keywords: dairy cattle, fertility, genetic evaluations, hormonal synchronization protocols.