M²-magazine

Rekad Publishing and M-team (University of Ghent) announce M²-magazine, a magazine on mastitis and milk quality for the dairy professional.  We have brought together our experience, energy, passion and network to start this international magazine targeted at people involved in milk production as farmers, consultants, veterinarians, ...

M2-magazine is a cooperation between Ghent University, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (Belgium) and Rekad Publishing (Belgium) and supported by Quality Milk Production Services (Cornell University, College of Veterinary Medicine, US)

M2-magazine - February 2012

• Milking machine and its effect on mastitis and milk quality
• Milking routine and its effect on milk quality
• The Canadian Bovine Mastitis Research Networ

•  Milking routine and its effect on milk quality
•  The Canadian Bovine Mastitis Research Networ

• The Canadian Bovine Mastitis Research Networ

  

  The Canadian dairy industry is spread over a vast area stretching over 5000 km from Newfoundland on the Atlantic coast to British Columbia on the Pacific coast. In this vast territory, 12,000 dairy farmers milk one million cows that produced 76.7 million hectoliters of milk in 2010. The dairy industry ranks third in the Canadian agriculture sector, after the grain and red meat industries, and generates 13.7 billion dollars (CAN) in sales.

• Milking routine and its effect on milk quality

  

  The aim of the milking routine is to milk clean, dry teats with a correctly functioning milking machine as efficiently as possible, with minimal risk to udder health while maintaining milk quality. Milk buyers want low somatic cell counts and Bactoscan counts without any medicine residues. It’s easy to say, but more difficult to achieve as many herds are getting bigger and labour is becoming more difficult to recruit. This article highlights the key points that we need to achieve at milking to produce good quality milk.