Dairy Cattle Technical Articles
Article published the April 24, 2020:
Achieving high conception rate is one of the conditions for achieving efficient production of milk at farm level. For many years the Israeli dairy industry suffered, like other farms in warm countries, a signif...
Article published the April 20, 2020:
Dairy sectors all over the world have been using the cattle heat load index (THI) as a mean of characterizing the climatic conditions to which cows are exposed. This is true when analyzing the results of experi...
Article published the December 30, 2019:
Summer heat stress causes significant economic losses to the U.S. livestock and especially the dairy industry. Different studies conducted in the United States indicate an annual loss of about $ 1.5 billion to ...
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 September 2, 2019:
Introduction
Bovine lameness is an important condition in commercial dairy and beef operations worldwide. Its economic impacts include decreased reproductive performance and milk yield and increased culling ra...
Article published the September 2, 2019:
Introduction
• Questions have risen on impact of many hoofbath chemicals on human health and the environment, and also concerns about water usage.
• Topical spray disinfectant solutions are an inter...
Article published the July 12, 2019:
INTRODUCTION
Mycotoxin contaminations pose growing problem in animal production from the economic and toxicological point of view (Marczuk et al., 2012). The adverse effects of mycotoxins manifest both on the ...
Article published the June 27, 2019: