admin@milksa.co.za 
012 460 7312
Brooklyn Court, Block B, First floor,
by Heinz Meissner
Click on any of the publications below to read more about the specific topic:
The Research Column
- Residual feed intake in peripartal dairy cows is associated with differences in milk fat yield, ruminal bacteria, biopolymer hydrolyzing enzymes, and circulating biomarkers of immunometabolism.
- Effects of replacing inorganic salts of trace minerals with organic trace minerals in pre- and postpartum diets on feeding behaviour, rumen fermentation, and performance of dairy cows.
- Effect of feeding fresh forage plantain (Plantago lanceolata) or ryegrass-based pasture on methane emissions, total-tract digestibility, and rumen fermentation of non-lactating dairy cows.
- Potential effects of short- and long-term intake of fermented dairy products on prevention and control of type 2 diabetes mellitus.
- Predictors of diarrhea, mortality, and weight gain in male dairy calves.
- Parents’ implicit perceptions of dairy milk and plant-based milk alternatives.
- Physical and economic performance of dairy cows managed within contrasting grassland-based milk production systems over 3 successive lactations.
- A new method for producing superior set yogurt, focusing on heat treatment and homogenization.
- Economics of timed artificial insemination with unsorted or sexed semen in a high-producing, pasture-based dairy production system.
- Cow- and herd-level risk factors for lameness in partly housed pasture-based dairy cows.