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Dairy - Milk Quality and Procedures

In this section of our website Ontario dairy farmers will find information on milking equipment, milk quality, somatic cell counts, mastitis, bacteria counts and milking procedures.

Milking Equipment and Procedures

• A Refresher on Cleaning Pipelines and Coolers
• Hard Data on Soft Science- How the 'People' Factor Affects Milk Quality
• Heat Recovery from Milk Cooling Systems (Order No. 88-032)
• Installation Recommendations for a Milk Pipeline (Order No. 89-118)
• Maintenance of Milking and Milk Handling Equipment (Order No. 85-001)
• Maintain Milk Quality By Decreasing Biofilm In The Pipeline (Order No. 06-089)
• Milking Frequency and Herd Nutrition Improve Production (Order No. 06-051)
• Teat Condition Scoring (Order No. 06-019)
• The Advantages Of A Consistent Milking Routine (Order No. 06-069)
• Your teat dip cup's style could affect your herd's mastitis risk

Milk Quality and Cow Health

• Boosting Births - Keeping Mastitis Out of Your Herd May Improve Reproductive Success
• CLA Could Spell Success
• Coliform Mastitis
• Early Life Events and Long-term Effects on Future Calf Performance
• Johne's testing proves invaluable for helping you make key management decisions
• Keeping Milk Bacteria Counts Low
• Not So Good Vibrations - Reducing Somatic Cell Counts
• Prototheca - Unseen Danger
• Somatic Cell Counts: Interpretation for Individual Cows (Order No. 84-012)
• Staph. Aureus Mastitis
• Storage and Handling of Livestock Medicines on the Dairy Farm (Order No. 92-055)
• Strep. Ag. Mastitis
• Strep. Non-Ag Mastitis
• The SCC Conundrum- You May Reduce Herd Somatic Cell Counts Without More Clinical Mastitis
• The Warning Signs of Mastitis - Analyzing a combination of factors to decide when to treat (Order No. 06-049)
• Trouble Shooting Antibiotic Residues in Milk and Dairy Beef
• Use of Livestock Medicines on the Dairy Farm (Order No. 92-056)

• Canadian Quality Milk
• Dairy Farmers of Ontario- Canadian Quality Milk Program
• Dairy Web - A Virtual Library of Dairy Production Information
• "The Milking School"