Introduction Maintaining consumers trust is essential to ensure the future of the dairy industry. Production of high quality milk from healthy, well cared for animals is the goal of most dairy farmers. However, as fewer and fewer consumers are familiar with dairy farming, they have become more skeptical about the ability of farmers to properly care for farm animals. Public attention about the w...

Lactobacilli are well reckoned for their technological and probiotic significance and their exercise in dairy products for trade and industry. The present study was carried out to isolate and characterize Lactobacilli from various dairy and non dairy sources of Indian origin. The isolates were subjected to phenotypic and genotypic characterizations followed by partial 16S rDNAsequencing . As ma...

Most dairy farms in Wisconsin continue to follow a fairly generalized formula of how to produce milk. Cows and replacement heifers are fed primarily homegrown feed from crop rotations comprising alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.), corn (Zea mays L.), oats (Avena spp.) and soybean (Glycine max L. Merr.). Protein and mineral supplements are purchased to compliment dairy diets. However, the dairy indust...

The competition among dairy producers is sharp nowadays. In this challenging situation the dairies are able to survive by the continuous increase in the efficiency and thereby the profitability of their production. The level of animal health is a basic influential factor of the profitableness on dairy farms, thus, it is very helpful to reveal the herd diseases resulting in the largest economic ...

has been a hotly debated issue in the US. The initial issue was the effect of drugs, chiefly antibiotics, on cheese manufacturing processes. Reports in the press highlighting contamination of milk and other dairy products with antibiotics and other animal drugs quickly raised the issue of food safety and resulted in the intervention of governmental agencies regulating the use of animal medicati...

The ultrasound technology has been used for various functions particularly as a tool in beef and dairy research for many years. It has become more available to the commercial livestock agriculture recently. Application of transrectal real-time ultrasonography in the study of bo‐ vine reproduction represents a technological breakthrough that has revolutionized the knowledge of reproductive biolo...

Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) have been implemented in almost every field, viz., science, technology, medicine and engineering as they have proved useful tools for obtaining the desired output including the analyses and shelf life prediction in case of food products. This review discusses the systematic information available in the literature concerning the implementation of ANN models for ...

background : listeria monocytogenes is of major concern to the food industry in general and the dairy industry in particular. little is known about incidence of this pathogenic bacterium in dairy products in iran. methods: a survey was made from 23 september 2006 to 22 june 2007 for listeria species in ninety samples of tradi­tional and industrial cheeses, in milk and surface where the cheeses ...