Increasing output has been the dominant theme in dairy cattle improvement for decades. Average cow milk production has been doubled and redoubled in the past century by dairy farmers applying the new information on genetics, nutrition and management. However, as every dairy farmer knows, mor...
Research results show that a dairy cow has no peer in converting 100 lb. of feed nutrients into essential protein for human consumption. However, individual cows vary greatly as to the efficiency with which they produce milk, from both a physical and economic point of view. Recent studies ...
Dairy farms keep their cows comfortable in many ways. This includes using fans and misters to keep cows cool during the summer, using barns that are right for their cows and climate, and other fun additions to the barn – like rotating brushes cows can lean up against. For farms in cold...
Longevity in dairy cows has actually improved tremendously in the past 20 years. Instead of breeding for only milk production, dairy farmers are focused on breeding healthier, longer lasting cows by selecting males with better health and longevity traits. Genes really do make a difference in how ...
Interestingly, a herd of 800 cows can produce a large tanker truckload of milk each day. Over a year, that would be about 20 million lbs. of milk or 2.3 million gallons of milk. **Productivity of the average cow in select countries. Amount of pounds of milk produced in one year** M...
How long can yogurt sit out?There’s a simple rule to follow when it comes to unrefrigerated yogurt and it happens to be the same amount of time that applies to milk, too. Here’s what you need to know:Keep it refrigerated after you bring it home from the store, and do not leave...
Some dairy farmers want to increase the amount of milk produced by their cows. How canGO ON
The cost of avoiding dairy milk is nothing, so the idea of saying that you can pay a "charity tax" for exploitation of another is absurd. Your interest in obtaining that particular taste or nutritional profile from a non-human animal is not worth 1/45th of a year of suffering for a ...
Dairy production has come a long way since the days of milking by hand. These days, machines are used to help the farmer milk several cows at once. This speeds up the milking process to produce an average of 15,837 pints (9,000 litres/2,377 gallons) from each cow per year. ...
Other milk products have different time and temperature requirements. The hot milk passes through a long pipe whose length and diameter are sized so that it takes the liquid exactly 15 seconds to pass from one end to the other. A temperature sensor at the end of the pipe diverts the milk...