IDF Factsheet 20/ 2021: IDF Reproductive Technology: Embryo Transfer
Since the domestication of cattle for milk and meat purposes more than 6,000 years ago, farmers have used reproductive technology to improve their cattle. In the beginning, farmers used simple breeding programs, selecting a desired male to mate with their cattle for each successive generation of animals. Today, a variety of reproductive technologies are used […]
IDF Factsheet 14/ 2020: IDF Reproductive Technology: Reproductive Hormones
Since the domestication of cattle for milk and meat purposes over 6,000 years ago, farmers have used reproductive technology to improve their cattle. In the beginning, farmers used simple breeding programs selecting a desired male to mate with their cattle for each successive generation of animals. Today, a variety of reproductive technologies are used by […]
IDF Factsheet 12/ 2020: IDF Reproductive Technology: Genomic Selection
Since the domestication of cattle for milk and meat purposes more than 6,000 years ago, farmers have used reproductive technology to improve their cattle. In the beginning, farmers used simple breeding programs selecting a desi red male to mate with their cattle for each successive generation of animals.
Sustainable healthy diets: balance between plant and animal-source foods
Paragraph 11 of the Committee on World Food Security Voluntary Guidelines on Food Systems for Nutrition Draft for Negotiations highlights unhealthy diets as a major risk factor for multiple forms of malnutrition and health outcomes globally 1. The document also defines the concepts of healthy diets and sustainable healthy diets in paragraph 20 and 21. […]
IDF Factsheet 2/ 2019 Ethyl Vanillin: Artificial flavours in feed – Possible transfer of ethyl vanillin from feed to milk
Why are feed flavours used in animal production?
IDF Factsheet 3/2017: Guidance on Antimicrobial Resistance from the Dairy Sector
This document describes what antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is, outlines dairy sector guidance on prudent use of antimicrobials and defines the global dairy position on AMR. These initiatives complement the many animal health, animal welfare and food safety practices that the dairy sector has in place to deliver safe and secure dairy products to global consumers.
Mycobacterium Avium Subspecies Paratuberculosis (MAP)
Mycobacterium avium ssp. paratuberculosis (MAP) is a bacterium which causes Johne’s disease, also known as Paratuberculosis, in ruminant animals including cattle, sheep, deer, goats and buffalo. Find out more about the many control programmes that are undertaken at the dairy farm level all over the world to reduce the incidence of MAP in milking animals.
Control and Detection of Antimicrobial Residues in Milk
Antimicrobials are used in veterinary medicine to treat infectious diseases in animals caused or complicated by microorganisms, mainly bacteria, or to prevent the development or spread of infection in healthy animals. The factsheet details the necessary steps for their prudent use and important risk minimizations practices. It also features information on the IDF/ISO guidance to […]
Antimicrobial Resistance – IDF Factsheet
The emergence of antimicrobial resistance in bacteria has had profound effects on the management of therapeutic approaches to both human and veterinary diseases. Treatment and control of mastitis is the most common use of antimicrobials in dairy cows.
Book of abstracts: 8th IDF international symposium on sheep, goat & other non-cow milk
The abstracts provided for this symposium are the work of the individual authors and have not been peer-reviewed. They are reprinted as provided by the authors with the exception of some typographical formatting. The abstracts have been reprinted for the sole purpose of the 8th IDF International Symposium on Sheep, Goat and other non-Cow Milk. […]
