A section of the Kansas Dairy Producers' Needs Survey evaluated needs related to education on reproductive management and the most common reproductive management practices used on Kansas dairy farms. Of the 312 surveys mailed to dairy producers, 70 were returned fully completed. Results indicate that producers need education on the topic of reproduction and that reproductive management practice...

Introduction Mastitis is the most frequent and costly disease of dairy cattle. Losses due to mastitis can be attributed to both subclinical and clinical disease. Clinical mastitis losses are generally readily apparent and consist of discarded milk, transient reductions in milk yield and premature culling (Fetrow, 2000). Subclinical mastitis is considered the most economically important type of ...

P335 group phages represent the most divergent phage group infecting dairy Lactococcus lactis strains and have significant implications for the dairy processing industry. Here, we report the complete genome sequences of eight lactococcal prophages chemically induced from industrial lactococcal strains that propagate lytically on one of two laboratory strains.

background: chromium (cr) is the most important element used to plate other metals and electroplating factories are still consid­ered to be the most important industries which pollute the environment to this metal. this paper describes a study con­ducted to determine the efficiency of reverse-osmosis (ro) as a membrane technique for removal of cr from wastewater sam­ples synthetically prepared ...

The seasonal change in milk supply and composition of milk (fat, casein, whey protein and lactose concentration) determine the type and value of dairy products that can be manufactured by a dairy processing plant over the season. Milk composition can be manipulated on-farm using a number of methods. Those methods include animal breeding, feeding, altering calving and lactation patterns, interfe...

Bacillus licheniformis is a Gram-positive biofilm- and endospore-forming bacterium, which contaminates dairy products and can be pathogenic to humans. The draft genome sequencing for B. licheniformis strain S127 is reported here, providing genetic data relevant to the ability of this strain to sustain its survival in the dairy industry.

Dairy animals’ diets may be naturally and simultaneously contaminated by several fungi that are able to produce different secondary toxic metabolites, known as mycotoxins [...]