Milk quality on Danish farms with automatic milking systems

Journal of Dairy Science

Volumn 85, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 2869-2878

  Rasmussen, M D ^a   Bjerring, M ^a   Justesen, P ^b   Jepsen, L ^b  

^a DANISH INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Denmark)

^b Vet and Milk Quality Department   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Automatic milking; Freezing point; Somatic cell count; Total bacterial count

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL SPORE; CATTLE; CELL COUNT; CHEMISTRY; DAIRYING; DENMARK; FEMALE; FREEZING; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INSTRUMENTATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LACTATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MILK; QUALITY CONTROL; STANDARD; TIME;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA, ANAEROBIC; CATTLE; CELL COUNT; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DAIRYING; DENMARK; FEMALE; FREEZING; LACTATION; MILK; QUALITY CONTROL; SPORES, BACTERIAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0036836012     PISSN: 00220302     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3168/jds.S0022-0302(02)74374-9     Document Type: Article

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