Milk quality services for dairy farms

Abstract

A veterinarian and founder in milk quality work, Dr. John Dahl once made the statement, "The halflife of mastitis control is at least 25 years." Unfortunately, this statement is still true today. It seems as though mastitis control still requires the same approach such as the "Mastitis Triangle". As veterinarians, our main goal still is to educate the dairy farmer the important interaction between the Man, the Machine and the Cow. The real problem is after all these years, we just cannot manage to get people to understand the real need for change, and therefore change doesn't happen. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the basic tenants of managing udder health on dairy farms by addressing the Mastitis Triangle.