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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Automatic detacher or automatic take-off

Agriculture; Dairy science

A device for sensing the end of milk flow in the milking machine which shuts of the milking vacuum and releases the milking machine from the cow's udder.

Biosecurity

Agriculture; Dairy science

Any of a broad range of practises enforced at a dairy farm to prevent transmittal of pathogens from other sources by feed, cattle, people, or other animals.

Blind quarter

Agriculture; Dairy science

A quarter of an udder that does not secrete milk or one that has an obstruction in the teat that prevents the removal of milk. A nonfunctional mammary gland.