Monthly Archives: July 2006
Calibrating Cryoscope
Hi, Dairy Scientists
Had a question on how to calibrate a cryoscope. For you who do not know this is a apparatus that freezes milk to determine the freezing point. This tells us if water was added. No water may be added to milk legally.
Usually standards that freeze at -0.408°C and -0.600°C is used, because milk freezes between -0.512°C and -0.550°C.  The calibration standards thus lie on each side of milk’s freezing points.  Distilled water can also be used as higher standard in place of the -0.408°C standard. This tip will save your lab money!
Kind regards,
Leon the Milkman
Calcium supplements could help women control weight
04/07/2006 – Middle-aged women could benefit from calcium supplements suggests a new study that is yet another twist to the calcium-dairy weight loss debate.
“Increasing total calcium intake, in the form of calcium supplementation, may be beneficial to weight maintenance, especially in women during midlife,†wrote lead author Alejandro Gonzalez from the University of Washington, Seattle.
Make your own conclusions by clicking the following link and reading the rest of the article:
http://www.nutraingredients.com/news/ng.asp?n=68861-calcium-dairy-weight-loss
Kind regards,
Leon the Milkman
Milk conspiracy theory and politics
Note to Food and Water Watch & Reminder to Starbucks – Activists Should Stop Masquerading as Consumers.
This is one hell of a good article that sheds light on a few political dairy issues. Read it:
Sorry about the massive link ;-), but click it anyway.
Kind regards,
Leon the Milkman
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Dairy farms getting bigger, more efficient
LISBON, N.D. – While the number of dairy farms nationwide is falling, those that remain are getting bigger and more efficient.
Qual Dairy near the southeastern North Dakota town of Lisbon epitomizes the trend, trucking about 4,650 gallons of milk to Cass-Clay Creamery in Fargo every day – enough to satisfy the daily milk consumption of eight out of nine residents in North Dakota’s largest city.
To learnmore, click on the following link:
http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandforks/news/state/14954033.htm
Kind regards,
Leon the Milkman
Production cut no help to poor milk prices
Hi, Milk Fans
Scottish dairy farmers have rejected persistent claims that they could get a better farmgate price by cutting production.
Read the rest of the article here:
http://business.scotsman.com/agriculture.cfm?id=957782006
Kind regards,
Leon the Milkman
A Dairy Farm Where Milk and Manure Pay the Bills
Hi, Cow Fans
The cows at the Audet family’s Blue Spruce Farm make nearly 9,000 gallons of milk a day—and about 35,000 gallons of manure.
It’s long been the milk that pays, but now the Audets have figured out how to make the manure pay as well. They’re using it—actually, the methane that comes from it—to generate electricity.
Read the rest here:
http://www.livescience.com/environment/ap_060630_manure.html
Kind regards,
Leon the Milkman
Here is an article with some financial figures as well: Economics of producing methane gas from cow manure to generate onfarm electricity (University of Maryland Cooperative Extension Service. Bulletin) (University of Maryland Cooperative Extension Service. Bulletin)