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Barriers to Adoption of Methane Digester Technology on California Dairies
… to adoption of methane digesters on California dairies. Methane digesters have long existed as a technology in the dairy industry, both in the United States and abroad. Much research has been done to attest to the viability and economic sustainability of methane digesters; however in 2014, there …
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Financial Performance of Pasture-Based Dairies: A Virginia Case Study
… and 2) financial performance of the 200-cow dairies is better, yet the added income from a member of the farm having off-farm income will provide a cushion against unforeseen production and financial risks. Follow up research should address the interface of three issues; stocking rates, farm …
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Factors Influencing Resilient Dairies: A Product of Herd Management or Farm Finances?
… the unique characteristics of resilient dairies that allow them to recover from poor economic conditions and achieve sustained profitability despite volatile milk prices. Minnesota dairies provided whole-farm finances and cow production data for 2012 to 2018. Robust weighting mechanisms …
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Public health in Cape Town 1923-1944: diphtheria, dairies and the discovery of the child
The idea of modernity, I suggest, was one of the chief tropes through which Europe constructed itself as a centre, as the centre, and the rest of the planet as a – its – periphery ...
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Dairy Culture: Industry, Nature and Liminality in the Eighteenth-Century English Ornamental Dairy
The vogue for installing dairies, often termed "fancy" or "polite" dairies, within the gardens of wealthy English estates arose during the latter half of the eighteenth century. These polite dairies were functional spaces in which aristocratic women engaged, to varying degrees, in bucolic tasks …
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Compatibility of biological and cultural control in dairy heifer group housing
… of biological and cultural fly control on dairies was examined in three ways. First, a review of the current literature concerning filth fly production and filth fly pupal parasitoids on dairies was conducted to asses where there was a lack of information. Second, a survey of filth fly …
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The Effects of Manure Handling and Dietary Protein on Ammonia Fluxes from a Flush Dairy
… new regulations on manure handling at flush dairies or incentives for flush dairies to pursue alternate means of manure handling with low emissions. Dairies can begin attacking the problem of excessive emissions by lowering the dietary protein content for older cows to reduce the mass of TAN …
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An analysis of the registration of traditional product names, terms, symbols and other cultural expressions as trademarks in Namibia
… Omaere milk, which is a product of the Namibia Dairies (Pty) Ltd. The term Omaere is used by the OvaHerero and OvaHimba speaking communities of Namibia and Botswana to refer to traditionally processed curdled milk. The Namibian Dairies (Pty) Ltd has been making use of this name for one of their …
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The Impact of Parlor Equipment and Milking Procedures on Milk Quality in the Southeast US
… count (BTSPC) on SE US dairy farms. Data from dairies in Virginia (n = 96), Kentucky (n = 96), Tennessee (n = 84), and Mississippi (n = 7) were collected at a single visit for each farm. Monthly BTSCC and BTSPC data were retrieved from state regulatory offices for (n = 263) farms, and averaged …
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Characterization of Biogas from Anaerobically Digested Dairy Waste for Energy Use
… November 2003. Biogas samples at the other four dairies illustrated rather wide variations in hydrogen sulfide concentrations from about 600 ppm to over 7000 ppm. It is suggested that the lower H2S concentrations may be due to additions of food waste to the anaerobic digester at the dairy with …
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Consumer preference for alternative milk packaging
… attributes. With the current trend of local dairies producing glass bottled milk all across the nation, the study focuses on glass bottled milk. The particular interest of this study is evaluating the consumer’s attitude toward glass bottled milk and how they respond to varying price points …
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Methane Production by a Packed-Bed Anaerobic Digester Fed Dairy Barn Flush Water
… of packed-bed digesters at flush water dairies under similar OLR conditions.</p> <p>Three methane production models were developed from organic loading: saturation-type (following the form of the Monod equation), power and linear. The models were evaluated in terms of regression analysis …
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Development of low fat and reduced fat mozzarella cheese
… method used by dairy farmers and other dairies; examine the effects of method of salting, use of proteolytic strains of starter cultures, effect of preacidificafion of milk using lacfic, acefic and citric acids to pH 6.3, 6.1 and 5.9 on the characteristics of ULFM cheeses; effect of rate …
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Management factors affecting calf growth and health
… in the autofeeder at the time of the survey. Six dairies from the original 10 were visited monthly for 3 mo for continued evaluation of sanitation, dry matter, and temperature of milk replacer from the autofeeder. Seven herds utilizing basic machines had a mean SPC of 6,925,000 ° 7,371,000 cfu/ml. …
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Delco light investigation
… a 20-cow dairy and sells cream to the southern Dairies at Christiansburg, Virginia. A complete farm management study was made of this farm as a Minor Problem. The subject of this study is the new Four Cylinder Delco Light plant, Model No. 178, generating unit,end 160 amphers an hour battery.
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Transmission Dynamics Of Mycobacterium Avium Subspecies Paratuberculosis In Closed Dairy Herds In The Us
… (MAP) infection on commercial US dairies. We focused on using deterministic mathematical models informed by molecular epidemiology and analysis of longitudinal data to evaluate current assumptions of MAP transmission. In vitro analysis of bovine-specific MAP strains revealed a …
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The expertise of germs : practice, language and authority in American bacteriology, 1899-1924
… health laboratories, water sanitation works, dairies, land-grant colleges, and agricultural experiment stations). For the most part, bacteriologists studied bacteria only so far as to isolate, identify and eliminate pathogens. Dairy and soil bacteriologists, however, sought to distinguish …
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Dairy cow management systems: handling, health, and well-being
… and cull cow marketing options. Of the 95 dairies contacted via electronic mail and telephone, 20 agreed to participate in the survey, for a response rate of 21%. The median number of cows per herd was 1177.50, with 90% of the respondents representing conventional dairy herds. The most …
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Comparison of Biofilm Media in Reciprocating Biofilters Treating Dairy Flushwater
… at livestock operations such as swine farms and dairies. Past studies have demonstrated that ReCip is more adept at total nitrogen (TN) removal than traditional subsurface flow wetland systems. The traditional substrate used to attach biomass was rock aggregate; this media may be hard to obtain …
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