Dairy Science Handbook

A Winrock International Project -- Preface -- A Global View of Animal Agriculture -- A Global Food-Animal Protein System: Pipedream or Possibility? -- Foundation of Civilization: Food -- World Livestock Feed Relationships: Their Meaning to U.S. Agriculture -- World Agriculture in Hostile and Benign Climatic Settings -- The Impacts of Climatic Variabilities on Livestock Production -- General Concepts Affecting Agriculture and the Industry -- Political Challenges For Today's Animal Agriculture -- An Agri-Woman's View of the Politics of Agriculture: National and International Perspectives -- Oregon Women for Agriculture Talk about the Structure of Agriculture -- The Current Status of the Family Farm in American Agriculture -- Livestock Production on New England Family Farms -- Regulation of Agricultural Chemicals, Growth Promotants, and Feed Additives -- Genetics and Selection -- The Value of DHIA to Producers and to the Industry -- Friesian Cattle Strains Comparison: Dairy Performance -- New Zealand Dairy Cattle Breeding Related to Holstein-Friesian Strain Comparison Results and Use of Embryo Transfers for Genetic Improvement -- Dairy Cattle Management by DHI Objectives -- Genetic Indexes Used in Dairy Cow and Sire Selection -- Form and Function of Dairy Cattle -- Physiology, Reproduction, and Management -- Hormonal Regulation of the Estrous Cycle -- Necessary Components for a Successful Heat Detection Program -- Postpartum Reproductive Management of the Diary Cow -- Embryo Manipulations, Test-Tube Fertilization, and Gene Transfer: Looking into the Crystal Ball -- Improving Reproductive Performance in Dairy Herds -- Reproduction Management for Dairy Cattle -- Managing Our Dairy Farms -- Environment, Buildings, and Equipment -- Measuring an Animal's Environment -- Measuring Environmental Stress in Farm Animals -- Livestock Psychology and Handling-Facility Design -- Design of Corrals, Squeeze Chutes, and Dip Vats -- Feeds and Nutrition -- More Economical Milk Production with Computer use in Nutrition and Feeding Management -- Greater Reproductive Performance with Nutrition and Feeding Stratagems -- Reduce Heat Stress in High-Producing Dairy Cows with Feeding and Nutrition Management -- Survive the Cost-Price Squeeze with a Nutrition and Feeding Game Plan -- Supplementing Dairy Cows in the Tropics -- Health, Disease, and Parasites -- Infectious Livestock Diseases: Their Worldwide Toll -- Impact of Animal Diseases in World Trade -- Biology and Control of Insect Pests of Dairy Cattle -- Potential and Actual Economics of a Herd Health Program -- A Health Program for Dairy Cattle -- Achieving a Profitable Calving Interval Through a Reproduction Health and Management Program -- Mastitis and Related Topics -- Somatic Cells: Their Origin and Function and an Interpretation of Their Numbers -- The Effect of Machine Milking on Mastitis in Dairy Cows -- Mastitis Control in Dairy Cows -- The Essential Criteria for the Components of a Milking Machine and for Component Testing -- The Range and Performance of Conventional Milking-Machine Clusters -- Computer Technology -- Agnet: A National Computer System for Cattlemen -- Rancher-Owned Microcomputer Systems: What's Available -- Six Steps for a Cattleman to Take in Buying a Computer -- Direct Delivery of Market Information Through Rancher-Owned Micorcomputers: A Reserch Report -- The Future of the Dairy Industry -- A Glimpse at Dairying in the Year 2000 -- Names and Addresses of the Lectures and Staff -- Other Winrock International Studies Published by Westview Press -- Other Books of Interest from Winrock International*