The Research Column

by Heinz Meissner

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Milk is good for you.

Discipline: dairy and health; Key words: milk, nutraceuticals, probiotics, gut microbiome, immunomodulatory activities, soluble peptides.
Prediction and validation of residual feed intake and dry matter intake in Danish lactating dairy cows using mid-infrared spectroscopy of milk.

Discipline: efficiency; Key words: dry matter intake, residual feed intake, spectroscopy, prediction, validation.
Production and economic responses to intensification of pasture-based dairy production systems.

Discipline: economics; Key words: profitability, marginal response, supplementary feed, marginal economics.
Ratio of dietary rumen degradable protein to rumen undegradable protein affects nitrogen partitioning but does not affect the bovine milk proteome produced by mid-lactation Holstein dairy cows.

Discipline: nutrition/feeding; Key words: milk protein, proteomics, bioactive, low abundance protein.
Risk factors associated with postpartum subclinical hypocalcemia in dairy cows.

Discipline: disease; Key words: hypocalcaemia, pre-partum, macro mineral concentrations, lameness score, hypomagnesaemia.
Role of bacterial endotoxins in the etiopathogenesis of periparturient diseases of transition dairy cows.

Discipline: disease; Key words: bacterial endotoxins,
The cost-benefit of genomic testing of heifers and using sexed semen in pasture-based dairy herds.

Discipline: breeding; Key words: genomic testing, rate of genetic gain, sexed semen
The effect of storage temperature and duration on the microbial quality of bulk tank milk

Discipline: contamination; Keywords: raw milk, milk storage,
Water use on non-irrigated pasture-based dairy farms: Combining detailed monitoring and modelling to set benchmarks.

Discipline: environment; Key words: water use, water efficiency, leakage, milking parlour, pasture systems
A high-throughput cheese manufacturing model for effective cheese starter culture screening

Discipline: starter culture; Keywords: industrial cheese manufacturing, enzymatic coagulation, protein separation, proteolysis.

Miniature cheeses can open up new possibilities to screen cheese starter cultures and study many other aspects of cheese production in the factory. The study was reported by H. Bachmann and coworkers in the Journal of Dairy Science (2009), Volume 92, pages 5868-5882, using the title: A high-throughput cheese manufacturing model for effective cheese starter culture screening.