Dairy Cattle Technical Articles
Article published the February 22, 2021:
In recent years, adjustments to the production costs in the dairy industry becomes crucial in light of current circumstances. There has been a continuous reduction in profit margins and increasing instability i...
Article published the April 21, 2020:
Those days are long gone when cows were enclosed within a pen to restrain their movement. Now they are set free at the farm until brought inside the milking area. As for the milking of cows is concerned, it is ...
Article published the December 17, 2019:
Cooling means to reduce heat stress from cows was developed over the last four decades in Israel, and are applied to a different degree of success in many farms in the world.
Cooling cows in the farm is ...
Article published the October 30, 2019:
Heat stress is considered one of the most influential factors in the profitability of dairy farms, especially in the hot regions of the world. In the conferences and publications that I have published over the ...
Article published the October 30, 2019:
Heat stress is considered an influential factor in the profitability of dairy farms, especially in the hot regions of the world. In the first part of my article, previous to this, I described how heat stress im...
Article published the July 11, 2019:
Materials and methods
Characterization of whey: To determine the physicochemical and microbiological properties of bovine whey, collecting samples of cow's milk from the integral "José Leonardo Chirino...
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...