The Research Column

Discipline: feed efficiency; Keywords: residual feed intake, methane, activity, dairy cow. 

Discipline: environment; Keywords: greenhouse gas, methane, biogenic cycle, fossil fuel gases, lifespan, livestock.

Discipline: cheese; Keywords: Shredding efficiency, TPA, salting technique, pre-acidification.

Discipline: milking; Keywords: AMS, milking unit, clusters, quarter-level milking, take-off level.

Discipline: economics: Keywords:  South-eastern US dairies, closed versus operational dairies, probit regression, mastitis, survey.

Discipline: contamination; Keywords: milk powders, spoilage bacteria, heat treatment, microbial survival, quality assurance, reconstituted milk.

Discipline: genomic selection; Keywords: genomic prediction, pseudo-autosomal region, sire conception rate, X chromosome.

Discipline: lameness; Keywords: claw horn disruption lesion, lameness, gene, marker.

Discipline: reproduction; Keywords: gestation, prediction accuracy, milk composition, discriminant analysis. 

Discipline: contamination; Keywords: biofilms, exopolysaccharides, disinfectants, enzyme treatment, dairy equipment.