Milk production characteristics in Southern Brazil
This paper aimed to describe milk production in Southern Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil, and to identify factors that affect milk quality at this region. The average age of regional dairy farmers is 49, and 67.9% has not concluded elementary school. Dairy farming is carried out on properties with a...
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doaj-7e447a78ca36477b9a3f391d64ae2b1e2020-11-24T23:03:31ZengUniversidade Estadual de LondrinaSemina: Ciências Agrárias1676-546X1679-03592015-07-01363Supl11991199810.5433/1679-0359.2015v36n3Supl1p1991Milk production characteristics in Southern BrazilTony Picoli 0João Luíz Zani 1Cristina Mendes Peter 2Victor Fernando Büttow Roll 3Maria Edi Rocha Ribeiro 4Gilberto D'Ávila Vargas 5Sílvia Oliveira Hübner 6Marcelo de Lima 7Geferson Fischer 8Universidade Federal de PelotasUniversidade Federal de PelotasUniversidade Federal de PelotasUniversidade Federal de PelotasUniversidade Federal de PelotasUniversidade Federal de PelotasUniversidade Federal de PelotasUniversidade Federal de PelotasUniversidade Federal de PelotasThis paper aimed to describe milk production in Southern Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil, and to identify factors that affect milk quality at this region. The average age of regional dairy farmers is 49, and 67.9% has not concluded elementary school. Dairy farming is carried out on properties with an average of 26.06 hectares and 8.4 lactating cows. Most of them (32.83%) yield 50 to 100 L/day. Among the properties, 13.21% yield up to 30 L/day, and only 1.89% produces over 500 milk liters a day. Average yield was 6.8 L/day. Regarding to milking procedure, 39.3% farmers milk manually the animals, only 14.2% performed pre-milking teat disinfection, and 53.9% uses a single cloth to dry all animal teats. For infrastructure, 52.8% milks animals in wooden cowsheds. We observed that the average somatic cell count (SCC) was within legal parameters, presenting negative correlation with milk production (r = -0.23) and lactose content (r = -0.39). However, the total bacterial count (TBC) was above legal parameters. Education level seems to interfere in management and milk quality, because the less educated groups are, the less adequate are infrastructure, management, and product quality. Data show that there is a lower quality milk production where poor management techniques are adopted and owner education level affects milk quality. http://www.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/semagrarias/editor/submission/18371Milk quality; Small farmer; Milking; Education |
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Tony Picoli João Luíz Zani Cristina Mendes Peter Victor Fernando Büttow Roll Maria Edi Rocha Ribeiro Gilberto D'Ávila Vargas Sílvia Oliveira Hübner Marcelo de Lima Geferson Fischer Milk production characteristics in Southern Brazil Semina: Ciências Agrárias Milk quality; Small farmer; Milking; Education |
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Tony Picoli João Luíz Zani Cristina Mendes Peter Victor Fernando Büttow Roll Maria Edi Rocha Ribeiro Gilberto D'Ávila Vargas Sílvia Oliveira Hübner Marcelo de Lima Geferson Fischer |
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Milk production characteristics in Southern Brazil |
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Milk production characteristics in Southern Brazil |
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Milk production characteristics in Southern Brazil |
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Milk production characteristics in Southern Brazil |
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Milk production characteristics in Southern Brazil |
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Universidade Estadual de Londrina |
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Semina: Ciências Agrárias |
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1676-546X 1679-0359 |
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This paper aimed to describe milk production in Southern Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil, and to identify factors that affect milk quality at this region. The average age of regional dairy farmers is 49, and 67.9% has not concluded elementary school. Dairy farming is carried out on properties with an average of 26.06 hectares and 8.4 lactating cows. Most of them (32.83%) yield 50 to 100 L/day. Among the properties, 13.21% yield up to 30 L/day, and only 1.89% produces over 500 milk liters a day. Average yield was 6.8 L/day. Regarding to milking procedure, 39.3% farmers milk manually the animals, only 14.2% performed pre-milking teat disinfection, and 53.9% uses a single cloth to dry all animal teats. For infrastructure, 52.8% milks animals in wooden cowsheds. We observed that the average somatic cell count (SCC) was within legal parameters, presenting negative correlation with milk production (r = -0.23) and lactose content (r = -0.39). However, the total bacterial count (TBC) was above legal parameters. Education level seems to interfere in management and milk quality, because the less educated groups are, the less adequate are infrastructure, management, and product quality. Data show that there is a lower quality milk production where poor management techniques are adopted and owner education level affects milk quality.
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Milk quality; Small farmer; Milking; Education |
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