By The Vet Group|2021-08-27T17:49:57+10:00August 27th, 2021|Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: cheese making, schooling@home|
Last August - in a series of dairy-themed posts to celebrate Dairy Month, we included links to some schooling@home ideas. With the state in yet another lockdown we thought it was worth sharing a few more suggestions with a bovine bent. For cooking "class" could we suggest: Make your own butter in a jar Use
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
