The Research Column

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.

Discipline: supplementation; Keywords: body condition, choline, dairy cow, transition.

Discipline: supplementation; Keywords: choline, health, milk yield, transition cow

Discipline: minerals; Keywords: milk composition, milk production, metabolism, somatic cell count.

Discipline: genomic selection; Keywords: environmental effects, genetic marker, Holstein-Friesian, reproduction parameters.