Dairying - Using science to meet consumers’ needs

Authors: By E Kebreab, J Mills, D Beever
Dairying once again finds itself at a crossroads. Increasingly producers and the scientists who work with them need to harness their knowledge and expertise to meet the demands that consumers have for milk and milk products.

This volume discusses how the industry can meet the needs of today's consumer. Scientists, producers, processors and marketeers together with those interested in the wider issues of biotechnology and the environment, present their views on five key areas of debate: cows for lifetime production; management for lifetime production; feeds and feeding; opportunities and impact; marketing - the myth against milk. The book concludes with a chapter looking at the future of dairying.

Availability: In Print
Publication date: February 2004
Binding: Paperback
Extent: 232 pp.
ISBN: 1-897676-14-X

Book Contents

• Review of dairy heifer rearing and its effect on performance, longevity, costs and farm income
• Physiological adaptations to milk production that affect fertility in high yielding dairy cows
• Metabolic consequences of increasing milk yield
• Longevity
• Optimising milk composition
• Rationing models for dairy cattle
• Using biotechnology for the production and enhancement of livestock feed
• Customers and consumers health
• Index