In 1997, the American Dairy Science Association established a conference series designed for open communication among academic and industry professionals on important topics in animal agriculture. Past conferences have discussed the need to preserve animal germplasm and the relevance of antibiotics in food animal production. Several past Discover Conferences have been related to milk production...

The addition of supplemental fatty acid (FA) sources to diets is a common practice in dairy nutrition to increase dietary energy density and to support milk production. The ability to understand and model FA, the effects of individual FA, and different FA supplements on production parameters has direct impact on dairy industry recommendations and the usefulness of FA supplementation strategies....

This paper addresses the issue of conservation of native biodiversity on privately owned farmland in New Zealand. Based on surveys of Waikato dairy farmers as exemplars of intensive agricultural practice, it examines factors that influence the survival of native forest on land with potential for commercial production. Results suggest that a significant proportion of Waikato dairy farmers regard...

In certain contexts, dairy firms are supplied by small-scale family farms. Firms provide a set of technical and economic recommendations meant to help farmers meet their requirements in terms of the quantity and quality of milk collected. This study analyzes how such recommendations may be adopted by studying six farms in Brazil. All farms are beneficiaries of the country's agrarian reforms, bu...

ABSTRACT In the past few years, dairy industry has become one of the fastest growing sectors in the packaged food industry of Vietnam. However, the value-added creation among different activities in the value chain of Vietnam dairy sector is distributed unequally. In the production activities, the dairy farmers gain low value-added rate due to high input cost. Whereas the processing activities,...

Scientific Paper) Sub-theme: Systems innovations and innovative governance structures Transparency in Food Supply Chains: Empirical Results from German Pig and Dairy Production Mark Deimel, Mechthild Frentrup and Ludwig Theuvsen Georg-August-University Goettingen Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development Platz der Goettinger Sieben 5 37073 Goettingen Germany Tel.: +49-(0)551-39...

In ruminants excess dietary Nitrogen (N) is excreted as urea mainly through urine. Urea, the major form of urinary N is rapidly converted to ammonia after excretion. Ammonia is an important environmental pollutant that impacts the quality of human and animal life .The NRC (2001) considered ammonia emissions from concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFO) as a major air quality concern. Ammon...

Hemorrhagic bowel syndrome is a highly fatal intestinal disease of adult dairy cattle with uncertain cause. In a dairy herd in KhorasanRazavi province, Northeast of Iran, two cows showed depression, anorexia, decrease in milk production, ruminal hypomotility, bruxism and dehydration. At necropsy, massive hemorrhage and clot formation was observed within the jejunum and bacterial culture of the ...

Harnessing hydrogen competently through wastewater treatment using a particular class of biocatalyst is indeed a challenging issue. Therefore, biohydrogen potential of real-field wastewater was evaluated by hybrid fermentative process in a single-stage process. The cumulative hydrogen production (CHP) was observed to be higher with distillery wastewater (271 mL) than with dairy wastewater (248 ...

Precision Dairy Farming is the use of technologies to measure physiological, behavioral, and production indicators on individual animals to improve management strategies and farm performance. Many Precision Dairy Farming technologies, including daily milk yield recording, milk component monitoring, pedometers, automatic temperature recording devices, milk conductivity indicators, automatic estr...