Dairy science

Dairy science

The scientific study of dairy and related disciplines including biochemistry, breeding, economics, engineering, environment, food science, genetics, microbiology, nutrition, pathology, physiology, processing, public health quality assurance, sanitation, microbiology and bacteriology.

Industry: Agriculture

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Rapid exit

Agriculture; Dairy science

Panels or rails that raise to release all cows on one side of the milking parlour at once.

Pit

Agriculture; Dairy science

A contained unit usually with concrete walls in which liquid or semi-liquid manure is stored.

Separator

Agriculture; Dairy science

1. Formerly a centrifuge device used to remove the fat from milk on the farm, but now used primarily at processing plants. 2. A device used to separate manure into solids and effluent and ...

Return alley

Agriculture; Dairy science

The alley through which cows must pass when moving from the milking parlour back to the cow housing area after milking.

Ruminant

Agriculture; Dairy science

Animals having four stomach compartments - rumen, reticulum, omasum and abomasums - through which food passes in digestion. These animals chew their cud or regurgitate partially digested food for ...

Scrape-and-haul

Agriculture; Dairy science

Manure handling system in which manure is scrape manually or with a skidloader, placed in a solid manure spreader and directly applied to appropriate crop land.