The Research Column | Milk South Africa

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

Evaluation of an ear-attached movement sensor to record cow feeding behaviour and activity.
Discipline: management; Key words: sensor technology, dairy cow behaviour, ruminating.
The genetic and biological basis of feed efficiency in mid-lactation Holstein dairy cows.
Discipline: genetic evaluation; Key words: genome-wide association study, residual feed intake, feed efficiency.
Digestibility and clover proportion determine milk production when silages of different grass and clover species are fed to dairy cows
Discipline: pasture/grazing; Key words: legume, organic matter digestibility, eating behaviour, drinking behaviour, faeces score
Changes in animal performance and profitability of Holstein dairy operations after introduction of crossbreeding with Montbéliarde, Normande, and Scandinavian Red.
Discipline: breeding; Key words: dairy crossbreeding, animal performance, profitability, modelling.
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.
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
Effect of pasture versus indoor feeding systems on quality characteristics, nutritional composition, and sensory and volatile properties of full-fat Cheddar cheese.
Discipline: cheese; Key words: pasture, total mixed ration, Cheddar cheese, fatty acid.
Drivers of choice for fluid milk versus plant-based alternatives: What are consumer perceptions of fluid milk?
Discipline: consumers; Key words: milk, non-dairy alternatives, fat content, lactose-free
Production and economic responses to intensification of pasture-based dairy production systems.
Discipline: economics; Key words: profitability, marginal response, supplementary feed, marginal economics.
Lactation performance of Holstein cows treated with 2 formulations of recombinant bovine somatotropin in a large commercial dairy herd in Brazil.
Discipline: hormone; Key words: somatotropin, lactation performance, lactation persistency, Boostin, Lactotropin.