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Markey et al. (2017) have just published a paper where they reflect that consumers are aware of the importance of milk fatty acid profile on their health, particularly if it is either more or less unsaturated. Their study evaluated the consumer acceptance of SFA-reduced, monounsaturated fatty acid–enriched (modified) milk, Cheddar cheese, and butter when compared with control and commercially available comparative samples. The effect of providing nutritional information about the...
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The Southern Dairy Conference is planned through the joint efforts of land grant universities throughout the Southeast, under the sponsorship of the SERA 15 regional committee “Competitiveness and Sustainability of the Southern Dairy Industry”. Our objective is to offer informative and thought provoking presentations on current issues of importance to all facets of the dairy industry: production, processing, and manufacturing interests in industry and...
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The U.S. Dairy Export Council (USDEC) announced that former U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack will join the organization as president and CEO, effective Feb. 1, 2017. USDEC is a non-profit, independent organization that seeks to enhance the global demand for U.S. dairy products and ingredients.  "Growing the global market for U.S. dairy products is essential to the future of the dairy industry and America's dairy farmers. I've spent my career in public service...
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Introduction Late pregnancy and lactogenesis are linked to comprehensive endocrine and metabolic changes. Homeorhetic adaptations are necessary to accomplish the nutrient drain towards the mammary gland. They are associated with decreasing peripheral insulin sensitivity (IS) in peripheral tissues other than the mammary gland in dairy cattle [1] just as in other mammalian species like humans [2]. Nevertheless, genetic...
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The 4th Annual Southeast Quality Milk Initiative (SQMI) Meeting will be hosted by the University of Georgia and held at the UGA Tifton Campus Conference Center, Tifton, GA on November 16 – 17, 2016. Dr. Steve Nickerson and the program committee at the University of Georgia have put together an outstanding program. The first day will be open to dairy producers, Extension personnel and agri-industry representatives, among others. Presentations and workshops will be offered to...
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Big Data Dairy Management will be the subject of the Discover Conference that will be held November 1-4, 2016 at the Hilton Chicago/Oak Brook Hills Resort & Conference Centre in Oak Brook, Illinois. This event will be hosted by the American Dairy Science Association. The availability of...
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A group of 61 members of the U.S. Senate and House have sent a letter to U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack asking him to take action to raise prices dairies across the country are paid for their milk.   Milk prices have been on a decline nationally since 2009, though they did peak briefly to record-high levels in 2014 before declining again. California dairies have been particularly hard hit by the declining milk prices, as the...
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SmartCare® from Diamond V brings smarter technology to pre-weaning liquid diets for calves, which helps calves get a healthy start and faster growth. SmartCare is a unique, natural, nutritional health product for inclusion in whole milk or any type of calf milk replacer. Dairy producers can learn about SmartCare and other Diamond V products by contacting Diamond V representatives, who will attend ENGALEC, 10-11 March at Tecnológico de...
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Dairy producers along with their herd nutritionists and veterinarians are keenly aware that there is a cost to a cow’s performance when she is under stress. The dairy cow is especially at risk for health problems around calving. During this time she is susceptible to physiological, metabolic, and infectious diseases. Changes to the cow’s immune system, with an accompanying inflammatory response, often are associated with health disorders. ...
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One of the pioneering NutriTek® dairies, MoDak Dairy, Inc. in eastern South Dakota, now has more than a year's experience using Diamond V's Next Generation dairy technology. MoDak is part of the Moes Family Farm, which was founded in 1884 and has begun raising the family's sixth generation on the farm. MoDak currently milks 2,200 Holsteins under the direction of brothers Scott and Jacob Moes who are among the family farm...
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Protein production today is the world's new high tech industry. Continuous advancement is going on in animal genetics, animal science, and veterinary science, as well as in feed technology, animal husbandry, and farm management. Technical advancements focused on animal health and performance continue to show amazing year-on-year improvement. This progress is critical to productive, efficient, sustainable, and ultimately successful animal production. ...
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Jo Coombe
University of Melbourne
Coombe explains Healthy Hooves, the Australian National Lameness Prevention Program
Dr. Jo Coombe (University of Melbourne) discussed the objectives, activities, and benefits of this program, during the International Conference Lameness in Ruminants 2015 in Valdivia, Chile....
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Can I use by pass fat to Newly calved cows? what would be impact on the cows production and on future breeding? Thanks in advance ...
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Thank you to all authors who submitted an abstract. We were delighted to receive over 300 abstract submissions for the Conference. Submissions have now closed and reviews have begun. Call for Posters Do you have research that was not completed in time to submit an abstract before the closing date for the 6th Greenhouse Gas and Animal Agriculture...
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Dale Bauman
Dale Bauman and 1 more
Cornell University
INTRODUCTION Dairy products are an important source for many vital nutrients including high quality protein, energy, and many essential minerals and vitamins and public health organizations around the world include dairy products in recommendations for a healthy, well-balanced diet (Rice et al., 2013). Dairy products, however, are also a major dietary source of saturated fat, accounting for about 30% of the saturated fat...
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Electronic computer monitoring of herd and individual cow performance is common in Israeli dairy herds, and allows characterization and quantification of milking efficiency as well as parlor throughput. Eicker et al. (2000) theorized that computerized parlor data could be used to monitor how milkers used the equipment in the parlor. The advantage of ACR compared with manual removal is well known. One of milking routine violations is “overriding” of...
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Introduction Lactation in the dairy cow is influenced by various management factors as well as the milking equipment. Milking efficiency is a combination of proficiency of the milker, operation of the milking equipment, and cow factors including udder shape, temperament and physiological traits. As dairies grow larger, the desire to milk more cows in less time has resulted in the need to...
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Dr. Vivek Fellner
North Carolina State University - NCSU
The effect of feeding an all-TMR diet v. an all pasture diet to dairy cows has been examined previously (Kolver & Muller, 1998 ; Tucker et al. 2001). Others have examined the merit of including supplemental concentrate to cows on pasture (White et al. 2002; Fontaneli et al. 2005) as well as some combination of TMR plus pasture (Soriano et al. 2001 ; Bargo et al. 2002). Our present study was designed to evaluate lactation performance when replacing incremental...
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Trends in supply and demand of milk in the world. T. Hunt (Rabobank)
Tim Hunt, Global Dairy Strategist at Rabobank, Food and Agribusiness Advisory unit, speaks about the global market, milk production costs and trends in supply and demand. Main drivers in the global market, during the 1st Dairy outlook, Buenos Aires, March 2014. ...
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The Department of Dairy Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison) seeks a Dairy Management Specialist to conduct applied research and carry out statewide extension programming while based at the UW-Madison Marshfield Agricultural Research Station. The Marshfield Agricultural Research Station...
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