Deepashree Kand
Available from Halchemix Canada
Heat stress in animals affects physiological and metabolic processes causing a negative impact on health and performance, which leads to economic losses for producers. Dairy cows are sensitive to heat stress as they have high...
Source: smaXtec news release
New research conducted in collaboration between smaXtec and the Austrian Agricultural Research and Education Center (AREC) Raumberg-Gumpenstein indicates that smaXtec's state-of-the-art bolus technology can help reduce methane emissions per unit (kg) of milk by up to...
Klibs N. Galvão 2
INTRODUCTION
It is well established that early cyclicity results in increased pregnancy per artificial insemination (PAI) and decreased time to pregnancy (Thatcher and Wilcox 1973; Darwash et al. 1997; Galvão et al. 2010). Treatment with gonadotropin-releasing hormone...
Source: Michigan State University, Heather Chapman, Michigan State University, Department of Entomology, and Brook Wilke, W.K. Kellogg Biological Station
There are many ways to establish pollinator habitat. This case study provides one example for farmers who are interested in establishing habitat...
Source: RDAR
Developing a vaccine that is effective at controlling or eradicating paratuberculosis from the dairy industry is highly desirable.
The successful development of a vaccine will be a significant step forward, not only for the control of the animal...
Source: University of California, Davis CLEAR Center; California Dairy Research Foundation
Analysis by UC Davis researchers shows continued implementation of California's incentive-based dairy methane reduction efforts should, by 2030, achieve the full 40% reduction goal.
The California Dairy Research Foundation (CDRF) and University of California,...
Source: Elsevier
Methane mitigation has been identified as essential for addressing climate change. Intensive research in the past decade has resulted in a better understanding of factors driving enteric methane emissions in dairy cattle.
In a recent article in the Journal of...
Source: UC Merced, Lorena Anderson
Adding even a small amount of biochar — a charcoal-like material produced by burning organic matter — to a dairy’s manure-composting process reduces methane emissions by 84%, a recent study by UC Merced researchers shows.
The...
Source: Journal of Dairy Research
Abstract
Preservation of colostrum for neonatal dairy calves has seldom been seldom in recent years, much of the peer reviewed literature having been published in the 1970s and 1980s. First milking colostrum is high in bioactive...
Source: Cornell University, Melanie Greaver Cordova, College of Veterinary Medicine
Consumers would be willing to buy milk from cows only treated with antibiotics when medically necessary – as long as the price isn’t much higher than conventional milk, according to...
