M²-magazine

Rekad Publishing and M-Team are happy to announce currently working on the first editions of M²-magazine, a magazine on mastitis and milk quality for the dairy professional. This is an effort shared by the M-team from UGent and Rekad Publishing. 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 - 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 Netwo

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

• 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.

• Milking machine and its effect on mastitis and milk quality

  

  The development of machine milking in the late 1800’s enabled milk production to expand worldwide with a reduced work force leading to improved economies of scale and profitability. Regardless of how much the technology has become refined and, as an industry, we better understand the inter-relationship between cow, operator and machine, there remains room for continued improvement.