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Testing bulk milk samples is a convenient and informative way to monitor herd health and current milk quality. Photo: Anne van der Woude
01-03-2023 | Article

Bulk milk testing for zoonotic disease surveillance

Many farms in China have big milking parlours and often those have so many employees that the efficiency drops dramatically. Photo: Snorri Sigurdsson
28-02-2023 | Expert opinion

Is it better to have many employees on a dairy farm?

Research on the effects of exercise on first lactation lameness, carried out at Massey University, New Zealand, has attempted to reduce levels experienced by dairy heifers using exercise in the rearing period. Photo: Peter Roek
28-02-2023 | News

UK: funding for cow lameness and productivity

Global dairy: US exports grow, EU to trade with Indonesia
27-02-2023 | News

Global dairy: US exports grow, EU to trade with Indonesia

Almost all domestic raw milk supply is directed toward producing liquid milk for ready-to-drink milk and school milk. Photo: Shutterstock
24-02-2023 | News

A quick stop at Thailand’s dairy sector

Join our seminar: Want to maximise dairy farm margins?
23-02-2023 | News

Join our seminar: Want to maximise dairy farm margins?

Milk samples underwent a blind consumer taste test on day 10 to see whether tasters could tell any difference between milk stored in the paperboard carton or the plastic containers compared with milk packaged in glass. Photo: Canva
22-02-2023 | Article

How packaging influences milk flavour

Northern Ireland (NI) has seen more herds going down with TB and the number of reactor animals at a test rising. The bovine TB herd incidence has crept above 10% for the first time in 20 years, according to statistics released by DAERA. Photo; Canva
21-02-2023 | News

NI: Vaccine hopes for bovine TB rise, highest rate in 20 years

Milk quality improved in the Holstein breed, which represents 68.2% of all NMR-recorded herds.
20-02-2023 | Article

Increased milk quality from Holstein breed

Although the results of the government commissioned tests on the cattle feed have found no toxins present, toxin-producing bacteria were cultured from samples. Photo: Chris McCullough
17-02-2023 | News

Test results: Cause of Jersey cows’ deaths

Poland’s largest supermarket chains have started offering butter at a PLN 3 ($0.68) per package, the lowest level seen in years. Photo: Canva
17-02-2023 | News

Eastern Europe: Falling prices puts dairy sector at risk

Farmers hold a unique power to be an innovative part of the solutions to climate change. Photo: Ronald Hissink
16-02-2023 | News

Sustainable dairy: Establishing net-zero farms

The lack of infrastructure, technologies and adequate management affects milk quantity and quality, the latter being a major bottleneck for milk processing in Zimbabwe. Photo: Canva
16-02-2023 | Article

Zimbabwe: Milk production records a significant rise

A group of scientists from the Russian Skoltech Institute cloned the cow in April 2020, altering genes in such a way as to remove proteins responsible for beta-lactoglobulin. Generic calf photo: Michel Zoeter.
15-02-2023 | News

A healthy calf from Russia’s cloned cow

An economic analysis has shown that cows with extended lactations have lower annual costs for feed and inseminations and fewer veterinary treatments, but also lower annual revenues for milk production. Photo: Ronald Hissink
15-02-2023 | Article

Pros and cons of extended lactation in dairy cattle