Several results of the project will be presented at the 'First North
American Conference on Robotic Milking' to be held from March 20 until March
22, 2002. The proceedings will contain the complete articles. The results to be
presented by partners of the project are summarised in the following abstracts:
| Abstracts |
Authors |
Institute |
| EU-project 'Implications of the introduction of automatic
milking on dairy farms' |
Albert Meijering, Kees de Koning and
Yvonne van der Vorst |
Research Institute for Animal Husbandry, The Netherlands |
| A database for the health of cows in
transition from conventional to robotic milking. |
Eric Hillerton,
Jo Dearing and John Dale |
Institute for Animal Health, United
Kingdom |
| Assessing animal welfare in a dairy
cattle herd with an automatic milking system: How can it be used as a farm
decision support tool ? |
Jan Tind
Sørensen, Jens Hindhede, Tine Rousing & Christine Fossing |
Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences,
Denmark |
| Automatic Milking Systems and Milk
Quality in three European Countries |
Yvonne van der
Vorst |
Research Institute for Animal Husbandry, The Netherlands |
| Defining acceptable milk quality at time
of milking |
Morten Dam
Rasmussen |
Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Denmark |
| Grazing: An Animal Welfare Issue for
Automatic Milking Farms |
Hans Wiktorsson
and Eva Spörndly |
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden |
| Herd Health Before and After Installation of an Automatic
Milking System (no abstract available) |
Eric Hillerton
and Joanne M Dearing |
Institute for Animal Health, United Kingdom |
| Influence of milking frequencies of dairy
cows on excretion characteristics of antibiotic residues in milk |
Karin Knappstein,
Gertraud Suhren |
Federal Dairy Research Centre, Germany |
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