BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Vitamin D deficiency is common among Saudi Arabian population. To evaluate the current status of vitamin D fortification and calcium content of commonly consumed food items by the Saudi population and to compare it to US data. SETTING AND DESIGN Cross-sectional market survey at markets of Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia and State of Illinois, USA. METHODS A dietary...

Some dairy farmers look at their employees as a cost factor, which needs to be kept minimal. Others see their employees as a resource. With proper management, employees can help keep a farm successful in the long run. How a farmer looks at his or her employees determines how employees will be managed and what role labor will play on a farm. If you are the kind of farmer who sees employees as a ...

The goal of a paratuberculosis control program is to lower the within-herd infection prevalence to levels that limited its economic impact, i.e. to a level where the cost of the disease that is less than the cost of the control program. This requires a combination of feasible and affordable changes to calf management designed to limit M. paratuberculosis infection transmission coupled with use ...

Forage quality testing defines the language of value between the dairy and forage sector. From a nutritionist’s viewpoint, forage quality consists of many analyses that, together, provide a prediction of performance in a balanced ration for the dairy cow. Marketing systems, on the other hand, require a few simple criteria that can be related to value and price discovery. Currently, most trading...

Abstract Dairy market development has been hampered by multi-faceted problems such as low adoption of improved technologies, absence clear policy support for the sector, marketing problems, and other institutional factors. This study was aimed at analysing determinants smallholder dairy producers’ participation decisions in intensity marketing. It is also identifying existing major constraints ...

The economics of manufacturing of different dairy products, viz. ghee, full-cream milk, standardized milk, toned milk, double-toned milk, skimmed milk and ice-cream (processing only) have been reported. The study has been conducted in an ISO-9002 dairy plant situated in the north-eastern part of Haryana. It has been observed that all the products, except the double-toned milk are being produced...

Palliser, Pierre Beukes, and Chris Folkers) is acknowledged and appreciated as some results were derived from their Whole-farm Model which has been under development for several years. Comments and feedback were generously contributed ABSTRACT The wide use of artificial insemination by dairy farmers has facilitated the development of a multi-billion dollar international market in animal genetic...

The impact of the protein content of feed barley on the costs of feeding beef, dairy cattle, and swine in Montana is evaluated. A model of least-cost feed rations is constructed to analyze the marginal value of additional protein content in feed barley. The results indicate that increasing the protein content of feed barley above 12% will not substantially increase the value of barley to feeder...

As a member of the Executive Editorial Board of the Journal of Dairy Research I have the opportunity to write an editorial highlighting the advances in dairy research documented in this issue of the journal. As with all industries, the dairy industry has embraced major technological change in the last four decades; from the introduction of robotic milking to the development of dairy foods with ...