The Research Column

by Heinz Meissner

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Title Date Discipline Extract Keywords
Ratio of dietary rumen degradable protein to rumen undegradable protein affects nitrogen partitioning but does not affect the bovine milk proteome produced by mid-lactation Holstein dairy cows.

Discipline: nutrition/feeding; Key words: milk protein, proteomics, bioactive, low abundance protein. 

Water use on non-irrigated pasture-based dairy farms: Combining detailed monitoring and modelling to set benchmarks.

Discipline: environment; Key words: water use, water efficiency, leakage, milking parlour, pasture systems  

Effect of pasture versus indoor feeding systems on quality characteristics, nutritional composition, and sensory and volatile properties of full-fat Cheddar cheese.

Discipline: cheese; Key words: pasture, total mixed ration, Cheddar cheese, fatty acid.

Drivers of choice for fluid milk versus plant-based alternatives: What are consumer perceptions of fluid milk?

Discipline: consumers; Key words: milk, non-dairy alternatives, fat content, lactose-free

Production and economic responses to intensification of pasture-based dairy production systems.

Discipline: economics; Key words: profitability, marginal response, supplementary feed, marginal economics. 

Lactation performance of Holstein cows treated with 2 formulations of recombinant bovine somatotropin in a large commercial dairy herd in Brazil.

Discipline: hormone; Key words: somatotropin, lactation performance, lactation persistency, Boostin, Lactotropin. 

Prediction and validation of residual feed intake and dry matter intake in Danish lactating dairy cows using mid-infrared spectroscopy of milk.

Discipline: efficiency; Key words: dry matter intake, residual feed intake, spectroscopy, prediction, validation.

Risk factors associated with postpartum subclinical hypocalcemia in dairy cows.

Discipline: disease; Key words: hypocalcaemia, pre-partum, macro mineral concentrations, lameness score, hypomagnesaemia.

Safety of milk-derived bioactive peptides.

Discipline: dairy and health; Key words: bioactive peptides, cytotoxicity, mutagenicity, immunomodulatory function, side effects.

Milk is good for you.

Discipline: dairy and health; Key words: milk, nutraceuticals, probiotics, gut microbiome, immunomodulatory activities, soluble peptides.