United States National Dairy Database
Main menu for Browsing Dairy Cow Publications
Links to collections of publications on dairy cattle.
Cow Stress and Well-Being Publications
- Fact sheets concerning dairy cattle handling, stress and stray
voltage on dairy farms.
Dairy Business Management Publications
- Publications concerning the economics and business mangement of dairy
production.
Dairy Cattle Genetics and Selection
- Publications concerning the genetics and selection of dairy cattle.
Dairy Production Facilities
- Publications concerning different aspects of dairy production facilities.
Dairy Youngstock and Veal
- Publications concerning all aspects of dairy youngstock management.
Includes information on diseases, nutrition, housing, and veal.
Food Safety and Quality
- Publications concerning the safety and quality of dairy products.
Includes the proceedings of a symposium on aflatoxin in animal feeds.
Health and Diseases
- Publications concerning health and diseases of dairy cattle. Includes
the Dairy Health and
Biosecurity Manual and links to important animal health WWW sites. Mastitis
publications are in their own section below.
Marketing of Dairy Products
- Publications concerning the marketing and distribution of dairy products in the U.S.
Milking Management and Mastitis
- Publications concerning mastitis, milking management and machines.
Includes a link to the proceedings of a Belgian conference "New Insights
Into the Pathogenesis of Mastitis."
National Dairy Herd Improvement Handbook
- Fact sheets from the National DHI Handbook covering all
- aspects of DHI testing, record processing and record use.
New and Emerging Technologies
- Publications concering new and emerging biotechnologies
- with importance to dairy production. Includes information on bovine
- somatotropin (bST) and the OTA Report to Congress on Biotechnology.
Nutrition and Feeding
- Publications concerning nutrition and feeding of dairy cattle.
Reproductive Management of Dairy Cattle
- Publications concerning reproduction of dairy cattle. Includes
- information on detection of estrus, reproductive diseases, artificial
- insemination and improving dairy cow reproductive performance.
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The National Dairy Database is presented on InforM via cooperation
between the University of Maryland and the USDA National Agricultural
Library. You can reach the the
National Agricultural
Library on the WWW.
This Web page is maintained by Mark Varner, Extension Dairy Scientist at the Univ. of Maryland and Chairman of the National Program Planning Committee for the NDD. You can reach him with
comments at (varner@umd5.umd.edu). Page updated 16 January 1997.
The National Dairy Database is published by the National Agricultural
Database Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin in cooperation between
USDA, land-grant universities and allied industries. The National Dairy
Database is distributed on CD-ROM disk also. You
can
reach the National
Agricultural Database Laboratory on the WWW.