Dairy science

Dairy science

The scientific study of dairy and related disciplines including biochemistry, breeding, economics, engineering, environment, food science, genetics, microbiology, nutrition, pathology, physiology, processing, public health quality assurance, sanitation, microbiology and bacteriology.

Industry: Agriculture

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conformation

Agriculture; Dairy science

The body form or physical traits of an animal or parts of the animal in the case of udder conformation.

contagious

Agriculture; Dairy science

Disease that can be passed from one cow to another through a number of possible ways.

corn belt

Agriculture; Dairy science

The area of the United States where corn is a principal cash crop, including Iowa, Indiana, most of Illinois, and parts of Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, South Dakota, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin.

cow

Agriculture; Dairy science

A mature female bovine. Usually referring to any dairy females that have borne a calf. Some may consider females having given birth only once as "first-calf heifers" until they have a second calf.

cow trainer

Agriculture; Dairy science

A tin or wire structure supported a few inches above a cow to prevent her from soiling the platform of her stall by administering a gentle electric shock if she arches her back to urinate or defecate ...