Sentences with phrase «conventional dairy production»

The objective of this review was to identify, evaluate, and summarize findings of all primary research published in English or French that investigated the prevalence of zoonotic or potentially zoonotic bacteria, bacterial resistance to antimicrobials, and somatic cell count (SCC) in organic dairy production, or comparing organic and conventional dairy production.

These conflicting findings may result from geographic differences in organic production regulations governing antimicrobial usage, use of antimicrobials in conventional dairy production, and baseline prevalence, as well as laboratory methods, study designs, or methods of analysis employed.

ERS researchers compared organic and conventional dairy production in 2005 and 2010.

The trend toward larger farms in conventional dairy production was evident in the five years between the two USDA organic surveys.

California was the top state for both organic and conventional dairy production in 2011.

The challenges involved in meeting USDA's strong pasture standard implemented in 2011 may dampen the movement to large - scale dairy farms seen in conventional dairy production.

Not exact matches

The primary difference in the production practices used by organic versus conventional dairies is in the feeding system (McBride and Greene, 2007).

Organic dairy processors had recruited new organic dairy farmers to add capacity and pushed hard for them to transition to organic production before June 2007, when an organic regulatory provision that eased whole herd conversion from conventional to organic production was set to expire.

Keywords: Conventional Dairy, Costs of Production, National Organic Standards, Organic Dairy, Pasture

The largest size group for conventional production — 1,000 cows or more — represented 2 % of conventional dairy farms and had 32 % of total milk production in 2005 (Table 1).

Unfortunately, just as U.S. organic dairy production was ramping up, the downturn in the U.S. economy started in late 2007 and organic milk sales actually declined 4 % between 2008 and 2009 — the only time in recent years that sales of conventional milk showed positive growth (Figure 1).

Australian Dairy Farms intends to convert its six Victorian dairy farms to organic production in the first step of the plan, which the company hopes will transform it from a minor player in the highly competitive conventional milk market to a major player in organic food prodDairy Farms intends to convert its six Victorian dairy farms to organic production in the first step of the plan, which the company hopes will transform it from a minor player in the highly competitive conventional milk market to a major player in organic food proddairy farms to organic production in the first step of the plan, which the company hopes will transform it from a minor player in the highly competitive conventional milk market to a major player in organic food products.

The authors compared three dairy farm production systems of the Bavarian Alps: organic, low - input conventional, and high input conventional.

Conventional dairy farms give cows a synthetic growth hormone to help with milk production (rBGH).

Commercially - produced (conventional) milk products — Most milk is pasteurized, homogenized and derived from dairy cattle fed with artificial hormones such as recombinant bovine growth hormone (rBGH or rBST) to boost milk production.

ARTIFICAL HORMONES: A study in the International Journal of Obesity from researchers at 10 different universities, including Yale University School of Medicine and Johns Hopkins Unversity, found that the use of steroid hormones in meat production and on conventional dairy farms could be a possible contributor to the obesity epidemic.

Recombinant bovine growth hormone, also called rBGH, and recombinant bovine somatotropin, or rBST, are chemically engineered hormones used on many conventional dairy farms to increase a cow's milk production, sometimes by as much as a gallon per day per cow.