Crossbreeding is a popular tool for genetic improvement of pigs, beef cattle, and other livestock species, but its use in US dairy cattle has been limited for several reasons. The primary reason is the advantage of Holstein cows in milk volume, coupled with a milk pricing system that still tends to reward quantity, rather than quality, in many regions of the country (i.e., through volume premiu...

Artisanal cheeses are known as the source of beneficial lactic acid bacteria (LAB). Therefore, this study aimed to isolate and characterize LAB with different proteolytic activities from Iranian artisanal white cheeses. The isolates were classified into low, medium, high activity clusters via K-means clustering identified Lactiplantibacillus (Lpb.) pentosus L11, Lpb. plantarum L33, Enterococcus...

From " Milk – It Does a Body Good " to " Got Milk? " to " 3-A-Day for Dairy, " you've seen the advertisements and commercials aimed at increasing demand for fluid milk and dairy products. Generic advertising of dairy products has been around for many years and has been shown to increase consumer demand and improve the net returns to producers who fund the activities. However, in recent years, s...

Integrated care has become too much a professionals' concept, in research and theory development, as well as in practice, especially in high-income countries. The current debate on integrated care is dominated by norms and values of professionals, while most of the care is provided by non-professionals. The paradigms of integrated care for people with complex needs need to be reconsidered. It i...

Agriculture is the backbone of Kenya’s economy. The majority population earn their living through agricultural activities, large-scale and small-scale farming. This study seeks to reveal how government’s COVID-19 containment measures have affected sector impact on farmers’ lifestyle changes. employed qualitative research methods, with primary secondary data sources, conducted in-depth interview...

Previous constant-parameter demand models have estimated generic advertising elasticities for cheese to be below that for fluid milk. We relax this assumption, allowing for generic advertising response to vary over time. Cheese advertising elasticities were found below fluid milk up until the mid-1990s; average elasticities since have been similar. A benefit-cost ratio of the farmer-funded gene...

The UK dairy sector has undergone considerable structural change in recent years, with a decrease in the number of producers accompanied by an increased average herd size and increased concentrate use and milk yields. One of the key drivers to producers remaining in the industry is the profitability of their herds. The current paper adopts a holistic approach to decomposing the variation in dai...

A method of combining survey data and Dairy Herd Improvement Association (DHIA) records to achieve low cost farm trials is presented. Farm trials and surveys of current practices and production responses are useful to identify yield gaps between expectations predicted from experimental findings and actual field results. Different management schemes can be ranked using subjective probabilities a...