The Research Column

by Heinz Meissner

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

 

Title Date Discipline Extract Keywords
Reduced milking frequency: Milk production and management implications.

Discipline: lactation management; Keywords: once-a-day milking, extensive dairy production systems, labour requirements, pasture deficit.

Cheese liking and consumer willingness to pay as affected by information about organic production.

 

Discipline: organic production; Keywords: organic cheese, demand, taste panel, willingness to pay, market.

Complete-lactation milk and component yields following a short (35-d) or a conventional (60-d) dry period management strategy in commercial Holstein herds

Discipline: management; Key words: short dry period, conventional dry period, production, lactation number.

 

 

A study on cow comfort and risk for lameness and mastitis in relation to different types of bedding materials

Discipline: cow comfort; Key words: bedding material, lying behavior,

Feeding, production, and efficiency of Holstein-Friesian, Jersey and mixed-breed lactating dairy cows in commercial Danish herds

Discipline: lactation; Key words: Jersey, Holstein,

Early pair housing increases solid feed intake and weight gains in dairy calves.

Discipline: calf raising; Key words: weaning, animal welfare,

SPORES ISOLATED FROM MILK POWDER PRODUCTS MAY NOT BE THE SAME AS THOSE ISOLATED FROM RAW MILK

Discipline: contamination; Key words: spore populations,

Effect of concentrate feeding method on the performance of dairy cows in early to mid lactation

Discipline: nutrition/feeding; Key words: concentrate feeding method,

Effect of maternal heat stress in late gestation on blood hormones and metabolites of newborn calves.

Discipline: calf raising; Key words: heat stress,

THE EFFECT OF DIETARY CRUDE PROTEIN LEVEL AND CLA SUPPLEMENTATION ON CHEESE COMPOSITION

Discipline: composition; Key words: conjugated linoleic acid, dietary protein, fatty acid, milk, cheese