cow milk News
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Biliyor muydunuz?
Did you know over 6 billion people worldwide consume milk and milk products? Whereas cows milk is the most known, today there are so many different types, both dairy and non-dairy! From goats and sheep milk to almonds, rice and coconut milk, there is an option for ...
By Peymak
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Goat farmers, producers handle increased demand for dairy
Buying two goats in August 2008 was little more than an experiment for farmer Paula Olson and some entertainment for her daughters. Six and a half years, 14 milking goats and roughly $300,000 later, she's in the midst of constructing a small-scale creamery in Madrid, Iowa, that's set to feature goat milk, cheese, ice cream and more. And though her creamery isn't yet open, Olson said local ...
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A new CRM for somatic cell count in milk: ERM-BD001
The JRC released ERM®-BD001, a set of two Certified Reference Materials (CRMs) certified for the concentration of somatic cells in milk. The materials shall be used for calibration and quality control in dairy laboratories operating methods compliant with ISO 13366-1 (reference method based on microscopy) and ISO 13366-2 (routine method based on fluoro-opto-electronic counting). Worldwide, ...
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Jimmy Stewart, cults, and a lot of broken glass: remembering straus family creamery’s opening day - by Michael Straus
Straus Family Creamery recently turned 17, and I started thinking back to those crazy times. In 1989, my older brother Albert, who’d been managing the farm and doing some pretty innovative things — including feeding our cows leftovers from a local sake factory … but that’s another story — decided to convert the farm to organic. He wanted to bottle his own milk, ...
By 3BL Media
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Milk and dairy hold potential for improving nutrition of world’s poor
Milk and dairy products hold huge potential to improve nutrition and livelihoods for hundreds of millions of poor people across the world, according to a new FAO publication launched today. The book, Milk and Dairy Products in Human Nutrition, says governments should be investing more in programmes that make milk and dairy products available to poor families and that help them produce milk at ...
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Israeli robot could be your next ‘milkman’
MiRobot’s automated milking system could be the biggest thing in dairy farming in a century Israeli cows lead the world in milk production, and Israeli dairy companies have set up projects in far-flung places like Argentina and Vietnam to export Israeli know-how on feeding, milking, and raising cows. For many farmers in the developing world, Israeli know-how has fostered a revolution in ...
By miRobot LTD.
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Livestock Event to stage world first live robotic demonstration
The world’s first combined live robotic milking and feeding system demonstration at an exhibition will be staged at the Livestock Event, to be held at The NEC, Birmingham on 2 and 3 July by its organisers the Royal Association of British Dairy Farmers. The new feature will complement a display of robotic equipment from the world’s leading milking machine manufacturers. The ...
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Experts exchange about the future of dairy production in Puy du Fou!
End of April, over 100 of our partners and experts in dairy production gathered in Le Grand Parc du Puy du Fou in Vendée (France), for a very unique show! Lallemand Animal Nutrition organized a French-speaking symposium dedicated to: The New Challenges of Dairy Farming. The symposium focused on the key issues of modern dairy production: profitability, safety and sustainability. Zoom on ...
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SCR Announces a New Mobile and Web App for Farm Data Control for SCR Heatime® HR Users
SCR Engineers Ltd. today announced a new mobile and web app service to provide farmers who use the SCR Heatime® HR System for cow monitoring with expanded capabilities. SCR HealthyCow24® increases farmers' flexibility and mobility through a rich set of enhanced capabilities, including seamless connectivity with third party systems, and automated data backups. SCR HealthyCow24 enables ...
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Association of Robotic Milkers meeting: Livestock Event, Thurs 3 Jul
Plans for a new collaborative group of dairy producers with robot milking systems are underway to enable them to exploit the new technology more readily, share best practice and ensure a positive public image. Called the Association of Robotic Milkers (ARM), the venture is being developed by a group of farmers as part of RABDF’s Foundation for Collaboration activities. The inaugural ...
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Since 2001 one celebrates World Milk day, and curiously since a year before began to descend the consumption of milk in Spain.
However, experts recommend continuing to drink cow’s milk for its nutritional properties. The recommended rations are between two and three a day in the form of milk, yogurt, cheese, etc. Professional nutritionists maintain the importance of milk and dairy consumption in order to achieve a healthy and level diet. Milk is a great source of calcium that is easily absorbed by our organism. It ...
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High Tech Robotic Dairy Field Day on September 22.
University of Minnesota Extension will be hosting a summer field day at Golden Sunrise Dairy, 31328 290 St SW, McIntosh, MN on September 22. Golden Sunrise Dairy is owned and managed by Tim Rolf and his son, Derek. In 2020, they moved into a new high technology, automated cross ventilated barn featuring the latest in dairy technology. Calves are fed on automatic calf feeders. Cows are milked ...
By Lely
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Three Farms Near Underwood in Spotlight at Lake Agassiz Festival
View three family friendly farms in the Underwood area as SFA Lake Agassiz Chapter hosts Festival of Farms from 1 to 4 p.m. Sat., July 13, starting at The Stout Farm, 31755 County Hwy 1, Underwood. The Stout Farm produces items not easily available in the grocery store – lamb, duck, geese, and wool. This tour will focus on fencing, feed, housing, and marketing those animals as well as ...
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FarmWizard Launch new DairyHUB Parlour Control System
AGRI-IT company FarmWizard is launching a new cloud based dairy parlour control system (PCS) which enables management of multiple milking parlour systems across multiple farm sites. FarmWizard, one of the UK and Ireland’s fastest-growing technology companies and the company who provide software for Cogent PD+ , will unveil the PCS at the Northern Ireland Winter Fair next ...
By FarmWizard
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Countries need better science to win trade disputes
With disputes about the quality of exports on the rise, developing countries need to boost scientific capacity to win claims, says Joel D. Adriano. In today's highly competitive global economy, science has a crucial role to play in commerce. Traditionally it has driven the technologies used in the industrial production of everything from mobile phones to pharmaceuticals. More recently, it has ...
By SciDev.Net
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Tami Smith joins Adifo’s US sales team
Tami's background in formulating feeds, balancing on farm rations, and working with feed mills and nutritionists in the dairy industry provide her with multiple areas of practical application for Adifo's software. Additionally, she had the unique experience of building the dairy genomics (testing) program while working for Neogen through their Geneseek platform. Contacts she has made during her ...
By BESTMIX
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Valtra celebrates production of 1000th T4 Series tractor
Six months after the launch of the Valtra T4, the 1000th unit was produced at the Suolahti factory in Finland in May. The T144 Active was personally driven off the production line by Polish customer Adam Jarnutowski. The white metallic T Series tractor is the latest investment at Jarnutowski’s farm near Łomża in northeastern Poland where he runs a dairy business with 74 ha land ...
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Top milk in Cow Town
Dairy enthusiasm does not get any bigger than in the Western Australian hamlet of Cowaramup, where cows are worshipped, in art and in life. About a three-hour drive south of Perth, the idyllic locale affectionately known as ‘Cow Town’ is home to 42 Friesian sculptures and dairy farmer of 55 years Rodney May, his wife Nicole and their four children. The family own 235 hectares of ...
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Scientists help farmers create greener dairies
Cows stand patiently in a tent-like chamber at a research farm in western Wisconsin, waiting for their breath to be tested. Outside, corrals have been set up with equipment to measure gas wafting from the ground. A nearby corn field contains tools that allow researchers to assess the effects of manure spread as fertilizer. Scientists based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have started a ...
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Monitoring cow nutrition
This month 2013 NMR/RABDF Gold Cup winner Bill Higgins updates us on the latest news from Wilderley Hall Farm, Pulverbatch, Shropshire, and in particular cow nutrition. Following on from last month’s article we are a third of the way through the maize and the bucket brush is in full use. It does surprise me that after only six loads of maize from the first field we were checked out by the ...
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