The goal of this study was to quantify the economic role of dairy farming in New Mexico and to identify its linkages with allied industries in terms of income, value added, and employment impacts. An input-output model was used to estimate the direct, indirect, and induced impacts of the dairy farm industry on the economy of New Mexico. The results showed that in 2005, New Mexico's dairy farm i...

466 The effect of arginine supplementation during pregnancy on uterine blood flow in dairy heifers. C. Yunta*1, B. R. Mordhorst2, K. A. Vonnahme2, C. Parys3, and A. Bach1,4, 1Department of Ruminant Production-IRTA, Caldes de Montbui, Barcelona, Spain, 2Center for Nutrition and Pregnancy, Department of Animal Science, North Dakota State University, Fargo, 3Evonik Industries AG, Hanau, Germany, 4...

The cyclical structure of this molecule has been previously employed in various industries: In low fat dairy spreads, hydrophobic cholesterol is removed using a process by lodging it inside the cyclodextrin. Hydroxypropyl-β-cyclodextrin (HPβCD) is the principle active compound in the fabric odour eliminator Febreze, the cyclodextrin simply envelops any malodorous molecules leaving even my runni...

This article develops the decomposition of the dynamic Luenberger productivity growth indicator into dynamic technical change, dynamic technical inefficiency change and dynamic scale inefficiency change in the dynamic directional distance function context using Data Envelopment Analysis. These results are used to investigate for the Spanish food processing industry the extent to which dynamic p...

Milk collection from dairy farms challenges quality delivery to plants, fleet cost optimization and adaptive planning for a dynamic production scheme. Current advances in the integration of GIS, optimization techniques, and the Internet have contributed to the development of software tools for strategic management in logistics for milk transportation. This paper presents a tool and a case study...

Microalgae contain a variety of bioactive lipids with potential applications in aquaculture feed, biofuel, food and pharmaceutical industries. While microalgae-derived polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) and their roles in promoting human health have been extensively studied, other lipid types from this resource, such as phytosterols, have been poorly explored. Phytosterols have been used as addi...

Torulaspora delbrueckii presents metabolic features interesting for biotechnological applications (in the dairy and wine industries). Recently, the T. delbrueckii CBS 1146 genome, which has been maintained under laboratory conditions since 1970, was published. Thus, a genome of a new mezcal yeast was sequenced and characterized and showed genetic differences and a higher genome assembly quality...

The decline in dairy herd fertility internationally has highlighted the limited impact of traditional veterinary approaches to bovine fertility management. Three questionnaire surveys were conducted at buiatrics conferences attended by veterinary practitioners on veterinary dairy herd fertility services (HFS) in countries with a seasonal (Ireland, 47 respondents) and non-seasonal breeding model...

FEED GRAINS ARE A GROWING AND SIGNIFICANT MARKET Livestock industries are a major market for grains on Australia’s east coast and a significant market for grain exports from WA and SA. Hafi and Connell (2003) have estimated that 80% of the annual demand for nearly 9 mmt of feed grains (cereals, oilseeds and pulses) is from livestock industries in the eastern states. An analysis of this demand i...