All Articles Tagged As: dairy

Tiny new device will make milk safer (11/16/2011)

Milk is about to get a whole lot safer for consumers, thanks to Concordia University researchers who've developed a new instrument to detect harmful foreign substances in dairy and other products. ...> Full Article

Farmland floods do not raise levels of potentially harmful flame retardants in milk (10/28/2011)

As millions of acres of farmland in the US Midwest and South recover from Mississippi River flooding, scientists report that river flooding can increase levels of potentially harmful flame retardants in farm soils. But the higher levels apparently do not find their way into the milk produced by cows that graze on these lands. That's the reassuring message in the latest episode in the American Chemical Society's (ACS) award-winning "Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions" podcast series. ...> Full Article

Beyond the barn: Keeping dairy cows outside is good for the outdoors (6/4/2011)

Computer simulation studies by scientists at the US Department of Agriculture suggests that a dairy cow living year-round in the great outdoors may leave a markedly smaller ecological hoofprint than its more sheltered sisters. ...> Full Article

New strategy aims to reduce agricultural ammonia (5/24/2011)

In the May-June 2011 issue of the Journal of Environmental Quality, scientists report how natural plant compounds known as tannins can reduce both the amount of nitrogen cows excrete in urine, and the action of a microbial enzyme in manure that converts the nitrogen into ammonia on the barn floor. ...> Full Article

Dairy farmer finds unusual forage grass (3/26/2011)

A US Department of Agriculture grass breeder has rediscovered a forage grass that seems just right for today's intensive rotational grazing. ...> Full Article

Wasting disease in cattle focus of workshop (2/17/2011)

Johne's disease has been found in 68 percent of dairy herds and causes an estimated annual loss of $220 million to the US dairy industry. The National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis is now accepting applications for its Investigative Workshop: Modeling Johne’s Disease to be held July 6-8, 2011, at NIMBioS on the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, campus. ...> Full Article

Research shows positive results with high pressure technology for certain dairy products (12/27/2010)

The AZTI-Tecnalia technological center, in a project undertaken by the Tecnolat and Llet de Catalunya dairy product companies within the FUTURAL project, has verified that, as an alternative to the traditional heat treatment for decontamination of a number of dairy products, high pressure technology is highly recommendable. ...> Full Article

Digging deep for ways to curb ammonia emissions (10/5/2010)

Dairy farmers can greatly reduce ammonia emissions from their production facilities by injecting liquid manure into crop fields below the soil surface, according to research by the US Department of Agriculture. ...> Full Article

Test-tube calf embryos more likely to survive Texas summers (9/10/2010)

Texas AgriLife researchers have found that embryo transfer can double dairy cow pregnancy rates during the summer and increase the number of heifers born as compared with conventional artificial insemination commonly used on dairy farms. They believe this method could save dairies in Texas and throughout the country considerable money. ...> Full Article

Dairy farmers can fight growing disease threat with chlorine and stainless steel (7/25/2010)

Two good tips for preventing Johne's disease on dairy farms: Use stainless steel water troughs and add chlorine to the water, according to an Agricultural Research Service (ARS) microbiologist. ...> Full Article

New biomarker for raw milk quality detection (6/19/2010)

New findings at Nanjing University lead to a completely new standard for milk quality control, and possible new milk products with specific usage in the future. ...> Full Article

Does pasture irrigation increase groundwater contamination? (6/18/2010)

The results of the study indicate a minimal impact of dairy farm pastures on microbial quality of groundwater as a result of spray irrigation. ...> Full Article

Put more nitrogen into milk, not manure (6/2/2010)

The more efficient dairy farmers are in managing nitrogen, the more milk their cows will produce and the less nitrogen will be wasted in manure and urine, according a study by Agricultural Research Service scientists and cooperators. ...> Full Article

Minilab can quickly identify antibiotic residues in milk, before it leaves the barn (5/13/2010)

Routine antibiotic residue tests used by the dairy industry take hours to produce a result and do not test for all antibiotics dairy cows are typically treated with. Scientists from the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) and LMU Munich have developed a microarray chip that identifies residues from one or more of the 14 most important antibiotics with certainty and in parallel. In conjunction with an automated minilab, this enables rapid testing of raw, unpasteurized milk. ...> Full Article

Cows: More freedom may mean less milk (2/19/2010)

"Free-stall," untied cattle in small herds produce less milk than cows tied to their stalls but have a higher reproductive performance and suffer less teat injuries and metabolic diseases. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access journal Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica compared performance and health within the two stall types in response to a ban on the construction of new tie-stalls. ...> Full Article

Potential of dairy-based package wraps outlined (1/26/2010)

Food-packaging products made from dairy ingredients could provide a viable alternative to petroleum-based packaging products, according to Agricultural Research Service scientist Peggy Tomasula. ...> Full Article

Massive monitoring project to identify dairy air quality parameters (10/22/2009)

Optimizing expertise and equipment to get solid answers both producers and government agencies can use was the goal of a massive two-week air quality monitoring project at an eastern New Mexico dairy, according to project researchers. ...> Full Article

Happier, healthier, more productive hens on omega-3? (7/14/2009)

Most of us are aware of the potential health benefits of omega-3 found in fish oil and flax seed. Now researchers are looking at how omega-3 may help laying hens avoid bone damage. ...> Full Article

Milk goes 'green': Today's dairy farms use less land, feed and water (6/12/2009)

Dairy genetics, nutrition, herd management and improved animal welfare over the past 60 years have resulted in a modern milk production system that has a smaller carbon footprint than mid-20th century farming practices, says a Cornell University study in the Journal of Animal Science. ...> Full Article

Study finds dairy better for bones than calcium carbonate (4/29/2009)

A Purdue University study shows dairy has an advantage over calcium carbonate in promoting bone growth and strength.Connie Weaver, distinguished professor and head of the food and nutrition department, found that the bones of rats fed nonfat dry milk were longer, wider, more dense and stronger than those of rats fed a diet with calcium carbonate. ...> Full Article

Names give cows a lotta bottle (1/30/2009)

Giving a cow a name helps to boost her milk production, Newcastle University scientists have found. ...> Full Article