Dairy Cattle Technical Articles
Article published the May 2, 2019:
Metrics, RoIs, data, KPIs. It’s a numbers world in the digital habitat, which makes it hard to stay away from the quantity trap where more is better. Getting excited about big numbers is easy and deceivin...
Article published the September 5, 2018:
Taxation on the dairy activity varies from country to country. Some countries exempt farmers from paying income tax, others reduced tax rates and some countries ask dairy farmers to pay full tax on their income...
Article published the September 4, 2018:
Introduction
Consumption of saturated fatty acids in milk and meat from ruminants is associated with an increased incidence of coronary heart disease in human beings (Menotti et al.,1999). The fat from r...
Article published the June 7, 2018:
In a lecture I gave at the 29th Israel Dairy Conference, held in Jerusalem in November 2017, I presented the principles of my work in consulting dairy farms around the world on coping with negative effect of su...
Article published the April 26, 2018:
Benefits of early detachment
Faster milking. Early detachment reduces machine-on time. This may or may not result in milking more cows per hour depending on parlour size and milking routine. AMS benefit the mo...
Article published the March 26, 2018:
Introduction
Milk is a liquid consisting of 86-87% water and this means that it is a bulky and heavy commodity. Milk is also produced on a daily basis. As a result, milk requires high cost transportation and t...
Article published the March 15, 2018:
1. Introduction
Lameness is one of the most significant diseases currently impacting on dairy cow health, welfare and productivity (Huxley, 2013). Since a first occurrence of lameness increases the future risk...
Article published the March 1, 2018:
The "Winter-Summer Ratio" report was developed by Dr. Israel Flamenbaum and Ephraim Ezra. This report reflects the gap in the performance of cows in different seasons and the ability of the individual farm to c...
Article published the February 5, 2018:
We have a renewed interest in the optimal dry period length for dairy cows. The average dry period length in the US is 57 days but variation exists. DHIA data say that on average, 13% of cows are dry less than ...
Article published the December 22, 2017:
Introduction
The livestock population of Ethiopia is believed to be one of the largest in the world and the largest in Africa. The total cattle population for the country is estimated to be about 53.99...