Cooperatives, dairy

Liebrand, C. B. and Ling, K. C. (2009). Cooperative approaches for implementation of dairy manure digesters. USDA Rural Development. Research Report 217. 

Weller R F and Cooper A (1996), The health status of dairy herds converting from conventional to organic dairy farming , The Veterinary Record, 139, 141-142. 

Baldwin, A.J., Cooper, H.R., Palmer, K.C. 1991. Effect of preheat treatment and storage on the properties of whole milk powder. Changes in sensory properties. Neth. Milk Dairy J. 45, 97-116. 

L. D. Satter, M. A. Faldet and M. Socha in Symposium Proceedings Alternative Feeds for Dairy and Beef Cattle, National Invitation Symposium USDA Extension Service, in Cooperation with University Extension Conference Office, University of Missouri, Columbia, 1991, pp. 22-24. 

In order to offer the consumer a greater variety of dairy products other then milk, UHT milk, sour milk products, cream, butter or cheese, the dairy industry has developed a variety of flavoured dairy products and later in the sixties, dairy products containing (fruit) preparations. The latter category originated from a close cooperation between the dairy industry, fruit manufacturers and flavour houses. Fruit juice processing companies, marmalade manufacturers and also flavour houses established departments for (fruit) preparations which resulted in a great variety of preparations. 

This work was supported by the Ontario Brain Institute (OBI)— Eplink The OBI Epilepsy Project the Scottish Rite Charitable Foundation of Canada the National Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) the Dairy Farmers of Canada (DFC) the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Epilepsy Canada and an International Scientific Cooperation grant between the Region of Lombardia, Italy and Canada (ID 16755). We thank Dr. Craig Behnke for permission to adapt the image presented in Figs. 1 and 2. 

Protein modification in milk started with experiments on laboratory animals two decades ago. The success of these experiments on small animals prompted researchers to extend the work on cattle and other farm animals with considerable success. The Dairy Cooperative Research Centre (Dairy CRC) in Australia reported the cloning of 14 calves with an extra copy of the cow s own gene for casein besides the 4 normal ones found in cattle (CRC Factsheet, 2006). This increased the quantity of protein secreted in the milk, thus increasing the nutritional quality and the value of milk. 

Hiramatsu R, Matsumoto M, Miwa Y, Suzuki Y, Saito M, Miyazaki Y (2002) Characterization of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli 026 strains and establishment of selective isolation media for these strains. J Clin Microbiol 40 922-925 Hu Y, Zhang Q, Meitzler JC (1999) Rapid and sensitive detection of Escherichia coli 0157 H7 in bovine faeces by a multiplex PCR. J Appl Microbiol 87 867-876 Huang L, Cooper MA (2006) Real-time label-free acoustic technology for rapid detection of Escherichia coli 0157 H7. Chn Chem 52 2148-2151 Ibekwe AM, Watt PM, Grieve CM, Sharma VK, Lyons SR (2002) Multiplex fluorogenic real-time PCR for detection and quantification of Escherichia coli 0157 H7 in dairy wastewater wetlands. Appl Environ Microbiol 68 4853 862... 

I wanted to join Thise because of their idealism - an idealism I still meet there...you can bum with enthusiasm... am still pleased to belong to a small dairy...with the ideas of the cooperative movement (PB). 

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