By The Vet Group|2020-08-27T07:30:31+10:00August 27th, 2020|Categories: MilkWise|Tags: #dairymonth, butter, food science, milk quality, schooling@home|
As John Williamson sings, dairy farmers "make a living making butter outa grass"! And this is very true. When a cow eats grass (or grain, hay or silage), the bacteria in her rumen ferment these feedstuffs into volatile fatty acids or "VFAs". Of these VFAs: Propionate is converted to glucose, which is then used by
By The Vet Group|2020-08-20T07:49:13+10:00August 20th, 2020|Categories: MilkWise|Tags: #dairymonth, Accumast, cheese making, milk quality, Pasteur, schooling@home|
Analysis of ancient pottery has shown that humans have been consuming cheese and other dairy products for more than 7000 years. Recently, scientists discovered an actual chunk of 3300 year old cheese from an Egyptian tomb. And in it, they found traces of the bacteria that causes the nasty disease brucellosis. And this is where
By The Vet Group|2020-08-20T07:49:30+10:00August 12th, 2020|Categories: MilkWise|Tags: #dairymonth, cheese making, milk quality, schooling@home|
Cheese is a great example of human diversity and ingenuity. From the desert to the Swiss alps, five simple ingredients—milk, bacteria, rennet, salt and time—have been turned into thousands of types of cheese. So how about a closer look at some of the steps involved in making cheese: the image above shows just a few
By The Vet Group|2020-08-20T07:49:44+10:00August 6th, 2020|Categories: MilkWise|Tags: #dairymonth, dairy australia, milk quality, schooling@home|
Recently, Dairy Australia announced their 2020 Milk Quality Award winners. These are the dairy farms that produce the best of the best milk in the country; our congratulations to them all! So let's talk about milk some more... What makes up milk? There is variation between breeds, individual cows and time of year, but on
By The Vet Group|2020-08-03T08:43:32+10:00August 1st, 2020|Categories: Farm Services|Tags: COVID-19, mask|
Monday the 3rd of August 2020 In addition to the Level 3 restrictions that were announced for Regional Victoria yesterday, from today (almost) everyone aged 12 and above must wear a face covering when they leave home. When we talk, breath, cough, sneeze, or laugh, the large, wet, heavy respiratory droplets fall relatively quickly. If
