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by Heinz Meissner

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Title Date Discipline Extract Keywords
The importance of milk yield and price in the overall profitability of a dairy farm.

Discipline: economics; Keywords: pasture systems, TMR systems, net margin, cost of production, milk yield per cow,  labour cost, feed costs.
Contamination of dairy products by the food pathogen Listeria monocytogenes.

Discipline: food safety; Keywords: background microbial population, salt, potassium chloride, food contact surfaces, salt-to-moisture ratio, pH. 
Impact of genetic progress on the profits of dairy farmers.

Discipline: breeding; Keywords: genetically superior sires, artificial insemination, embryo transfer, feed intake, profits, managerial ability. 
Resistance to antibiotics by microbial pathogens.

Discipline: antibiotics; Keywords: mastitis causing organisms, performance, Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococci, Klebsiella, SCC, drugs.
Effect of dry period length on reproduction during the subsequent lactation

Discipline: reproduction; Keywords: increased profit, improved overall efficiency, energy reserves, after calving ovulation, artificial insemination. 
Cheese liking and consumer willingness to pay as affected by information about organic production.

 

Discipline: organic production; Keywords: organic cheese, demand, taste panel, willingness to pay, market.

Faciolosis in pasture-based dairy production systems.

Discipline: disease; Keywords: liver fluke, parasitic disease, lymnaeid snail, drug therapy, molluscicides, milk withdrawal period.

More sustainable production in the dairy industry.

Discipline: ethics; Keywords: ecosystems, biodiversity, waste accumulation, Code of Conduct, profitability, heritage responsibility.

Ionophores in relation to antibiotic resistance in humans.

Discipline: antibiotics; Keywords: gram positive bacteria, altered fermentation, propionate, Streptomyces cinnamonensis, health concerns.
The effect of different production systems and practices on the environmental impact, quality and safety of products from ruminant livestock: 2. Dairy products.

Discipline: technology adoption; Keywords: technological advances, activists, consumers, recombinant bovine somatotropin, safety and health implications.