In recent decades, urban encroachment and increasing environmental regulation have impacted California’s dairy industry. A complicated set of environmental legislation affects dairies in the state, and can differ depending on location, creating the possibility for within-state pollution havens. This article details the regional, state, and federal environmental regulation of California’s dairy ...

Diary industry in China has been in deep crisis since a series of quality scandals were exposed to public in 2008. Thanks to the traceability system in dairy supply chain and the growth of the internet, providing traceable dairy product information to the public is viewed as one of the best ways, mostly in terms of feasibility, to overcome the trust crisis and to promote the development of the ...

The New Zealand dairy industry faces political and commercial pressure to improve its environmental performance while maintaining commercial competitiveness in a global marketplace. In response to such pressures, the industry has taken some steps to improve the environmental management practices of dairy farmers. Despite significant effort, however, the dairy sector remains highly influenced by...

Taguchi L9 orthogonal array was implemented to select optimum values of process parameters and to attain the maximum removal of pollutants and power generation from dairy industry wastewater using double chambered salt bridge microbial fuel cell. The maximum chemical oxygen demand reduction, current, voltage, power, current density and power density in double chambered salt bridge microbial fue...

As U.S. dairy farms continue to become more productive, increasing demand is a key to improved economic prospects for the dairy industry. One way to expand demand for dairy products is to find new, economically viable uses for milk. Ex ante economic analysis of new uses for agricultural products anticipates the potential market effects of innovations, and provides a basis for evaluating investm...

Milk proteins play a range of roles which make dairy products and products containing dairy components are valuable. Theses include nutrition, physical functionality and breakdown under controlled condition to produce nutritional, functional or flavour full products. This article reviews the structure of whey protein concequence for dairy industry. [Journal of American Science. 2010;6(11):79-84...

Widespread speculation about the possible role of MAP in Crohn’s disease in humans has led to concern within the dairy industry, particularly since some studies have shown that the organism can survive pasteurization. A national control strategy would promote and protect New Zealand dairy export sales and match efforts by other major dairy producers such as the US, Australia and some EU countries.

Representatives of the genus Bacillus are common milk contaminants that cause spoilage and flavor alterations of dairy products. Bacillus sp. FMQ74 was isolated from raw milk on a Danish dairy farm. To elucidate the genomic basis of this strain's survival in the dairy industry, a high-quality draft genome was produced.

As advances in dairy cattle nutrition research are now becoming available to the dairy industry, it is sometimes difficult to understand how these differ ent advances and improvements in our understanding of dairy nutrition with the different approaches taken by different companies and their associated “jargon”. This brochure is meant as a general overview of the different ration balancing syst...

The dairy industry in the developed world has undergone profound changes over recent decades. In this paper, we present an overview of some of the most important recent changes in the dairy industry that affect health and welfare of dairy cows, as well as the science associated with these changes. Additionally, knowledge gaps are identified where research is needed to guide the dairy industry t...