The Research Column | Milk South Africa

admin@milksa.co.za 012 460 7312

Brooklyn Court, Block B, First floor,

361 Veale Street,Nieuw Muckleneuk

Pretoria, South Africa

by Heinz Meissner

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

Effect of time of maize silage supplementation on herbage intake, milk production, and nitrogen excretion of grazing dairy cows.
Discipline: pastures/grazing; key words: dairy cow
Draining and salting as responsible key steps in the generation of the acid-forming potential of cheese: Application to a soft blue-veined cheese
Discipline: cheese; Key words: acid-forming potential
Effects of automatic cluster removal and feeding during milking on milking efficiency, milk yield and milk fat quality.
Discipline: milking; Key words: cluster take-off level, parlour feeding, milking interval, residual milk, milking efficiency.
THE EFFECT OF HIGH SCC LEVELS ON MILK AND CHEESE QUALITY
Discipline: mastitis; Key words: somatic cell counts, pasteurized fluid milk quality, shelf-life study, cheese, total solids, protein.
In vitro evaluation of a novel bacteriophage cocktail as a preventative for bovine coliform mastitis.
Discipline: mastitis; Key words: bacteriophage
Estimating efficiency in automatic milking systems.
Discipline: management; Key words: automatic milking
Bacterial counts on teat skin and in new sand, recycled sand, and recycled manure solids used as bedding in freestalls.
Discipline: housing: Key words: mastitis,
Effect of maternal heat stress in late gestation on blood hormones and metabolites of newborn calves.
Discipline: calf raising; Key words: heat stress
Role of bacterial endotoxins in the etiopathogenesis of periparturient diseases of transition dairy cows.
Discipline: disease; Key words: bacterial endotoxins
Cow- and farm-level risk factors for lameness on dairy farms with automated milking systems.
Discipline: lameness; Key words: automated milking systems,