Dairy Production Medicine

by Carlos Risco, Pedro Melendez
August 2011

This comprehensive book integrates new technology and concepts that have been developed in recent years to manage dairy farms in a profitable manner. The approach to the production of livestock and quality milk is multidisciplinary, involving nutrition, reproduction, clinical medicine, genetics, pathology, epidemiology, human resource management and economics. The book is structured by the production cycle of the dairy cow covering critical points in cow management. Written and edited by highly respected experts, this book provides a thoroughly modern and up-to-date resource for all those involved in the dairy industry.

• Uses a multi-disciplinary approach, involving nutrition, reproduction, clinical medicine, genetics, pathology, epidemiology, human resource management and economics
• Structured by the production cycle of the dairy cow covering critical points in cow management
• Provides a thoroughly modern and up to date resource for all those involved in the dairy industry
• Integrates new technology and concepts that have been developed in recent years to manage dairy farms in a profitable manner
• Written and edited by highly respected experts