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Associating mobility scores with production and reproductive performance in pasture-based dairy cows.
Discipline: disease; Keywords: lameness, milk production, culling, reproduction, locomotion.
3-Nitrooxypropanol decreases methane emissions and increases hydrogen emissions of early lactation dairy cows, with associated changes in nutrient digestibility and energy metabolism.
Discipline: environment; Keywords: dairy cow, 3-nitrooxypropanol, lactation stage, enteric methane production
Physical and economic comparison of pasture-based automatic and conventional milking systems.
Discipline: milking systems: Keywords: robotic milking, profitability, productivity, economics, business analysis
Effect of bismuth subnitrate on in vitro growth of major mastitis pathogens.
Discipline: mastitis; Keywords: bismuth subnitrate, mastitis, teat sealant, dry cow.
Phenotypic modelling of residual feed intake using physical activity and methane production as energy sinks.
Discipline: feed efficiency; Keywords: residual feed intake, methane, activity, dairy cow.
Why methane from cattle warms the climate differently than CO2 from fossil fuels.
Discipline: environment; Keywords: greenhouse gas, methane, biogenic cycle, fossil fuel gases, lifespan, livestock.
Effect of Salting Technique on Shreddability, Texture Profile and Microstructure of the Pre-Acidified Cow’s Mozzarella Cheese.
Discipline: cheese; Keywords: Shredding efficiency, TPA, salting technique, pre-acidification.
Increased take-off level in automatic milking systems – effects on milk flow, milk yield and milking efficiency at the quarter level.
Discipline: milking; Keywords: AMS, milking unit, clusters, quarter-level milking, take-off level.
Analysis of closed versus operating dairies in the south-eastern United States.
Discipline: economics: Keywords: South-eastern US dairies, closed versus operational dairies, probit regression, mastitis, survey.
Spores in dairy – new insights in detection, enumeration and risk assessment
Discipline: contamination; Keywords: milk powders, spoilage bacteria, heat treatment, microbial survival, quality assurance, reconstituted milk.