Technologies used at advanced dairy farms for optimizing the performance of dairy animals: A review

Treatments Used on Organic Dairy Farms

INTRODUCTION Organic regulations in the US strictly regulate medications may be used on organic farms (USDA, 2011). While both Canadian and EU organic standards discourage the use of antibiotics or prohibited synthetic compounds, both standards contain provisions that allow limited usage of antibiotics (without loss of organic status of the animal) under strictly defined conditions and with ext...

An economic study of dairy farms : a case study of dairy farms around shiraz

Optimizing the Transition Cow Management System on Commercial Dairy Farms

Nutrition and management of the transition cow continues to attract substantial research attention. Despite the tremendous quantity of research conducted on nutrition and physiology of transition cows, the transition period remains a problematic area on many commercial dairy farms, and metabolic disorders continue to occur at economically important rates (Burhans et al., 2003). Data recently su...

Test used to Diagnose Mastitis on Dairy Farms

The Sanitary Administration of Dairy Farms

the health of persons who resided on or in the neighbourhood of the premises. Sanitary negligence, however, in the open country gave no. offence to any one. There were no neighbours to complain, and people employed in tending cattle were not themselves likely to find much fault with conditions to which they had been accustomed all their life, and for which they were themselves largely responsib...