Over the past two decades there have been major increases in dairy production in New Zealand. This increase in intensity has required increased use of external inputs, in particular fertilizer, feed, and water. Intensified dairy farming thus incurs considerable environmental externalities: impacts that are not paid for directly by the dairy farmer. These externalities are left for the wider New...

Arterial stiffness is an independent predictor of cardiovascular disease events and mortality, and like blood pressure, may be influenced by dairy food intake. Few studies have investigated the effects of consumption of these foods on prospective measures of arterial stiffness. The present analysis aimed to investigate the prospective relationship between milk, cheese, cream, and butter consump...

conclusions results of this study did not support the hypothesis that dairy products consumption protects against mets and its components. patients and methods in this cross-sectional study, 785 adolescent aged 10 to 19 years, participated from the fourth phase of the tehran lipid and glucose study. usual dietary intake was assessed using a valid semi quantitative food frequency questionnaire. ...

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...

PURPOSE To date, studies investigating the association between dairy consumption and breast cancer in women have produced conflicting results. As diet is an important, modifiable factor affecting cancer development, the aim of this study was to examine the association between dairy consumption and breast cancer risk. METHODS PubMed, Embase, and Cochrane Library databases were searched with a ...

Indian dairy industry can be divided into two types of enterprises: Liquid Milk and Milk Products. In the procurement and marketing of liquid milk, there is strong presence of co-operative and traditional private channels though the organised sector private enterprises also exist. The packaged liquid milk market alone is of the order of Rs. 12, 000 crore and has been growing at the rate of 10 p...

Dairy farmer check-off contributions are used to fund a variety of generic commodity promotion programs. Historically, generic advertising of fluid milk and cheese have constituted the majority share of check-off budgets for dairy products. In recent years, however, slow growth in dairy farmer check-off revenues, combined with sharp increases in media advertising costs, has prompted a shift awa...