Organic Milk Versus Conventional Milk As Functional Milk

SURVEY OF RETAIL MILK: COMPARISON OF THE FATTY ACID COMPOSITION OF CONVENTIONAL MILK AND MILK LABELED AS “rbST-

‘Milk is Milk’: Organic Dairy Adoption Decisions and Bounded Rationality

Bounded rationality is an especially appropriate framework for organic dairy adoption decisions as it recognizes internal and external constraints which are critical in understanding complex farm decision making. Farmers use of, and access to, information is examined using interview data gathered from organic, conventional, managed graziers, and Amish dairy farmers in Southwestern Wisconsin at ...

Organic and Conventional Milk Consumers in San Luis Obispo County

Signature iii ABSTRACT This study was conducted to collect data about milk consumers in San Luis Obispo County. Surveys were created and administered to grocery store shoppers at five different cities in San Luis Obispo County. These surveys included questions about demographics, purchasing behavior, and desirability ratings. The data was inputted into a computer and then analyzed using Statist...

nvironmental impact assessment of conventional and organic milk production *

Organic agriculture addresses the public demand to diminish environmental pollution of agricultural production. Until now, however, only few studies tried to determine the integrated environmental impact of conventional versus organic production using life cycle assessment (LCA). The aim of this article was to review prospects and constraints of LCA as a tool to assess the integrated environmen...

Comparing the fatty acid composition of organic and conventional milk.

During a 12-mo longitudinal study, bulk-tank milk was collected each month from organic (n = 17) and conventional (n = 19) dairy farms in the United Kingdom. All milk samples were analyzed for fatty acid (FA) content, with the farming system type, herd production level, and nutritional factors affecting the FA composition investigated by use of mixed model analyses. Models were constructed for ...