Season 7 · Episode 19
Milk quality and more with Justine Britten
May 20, 202529m 45s
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Show Notes
In this episode of the Progressive Dairy Podcast, learn from National Mastitis Council president and director of Udder Health Systems Justine Britten as she and host Matti McBride discuss milk quality. Enjoy a conversation about changes in milk quality, innovations that have changed how milk quality is managed on dairies, common problems in parlors, tips for sampling milk for mastitis cultures and more.
Here is the episode breakdown:
- 1:00 – Britten’s background
- 2:40 – How milk quality has changed recently
- 7:30 – What’s made the biggest wave in milk quality
- 12:00 – Britten’s approach to treating a mastitis outbreak
- 17:05 – The most common problem in parlors today
- 18:40 – How to properly sample milk for a mastitis culture
- 23:18 – The importance of explaining the problem at hand when sending milk to a lab
- 26:00 – The biggest misconception when it comes to milk quality
- 28:00 – Rapid-fire questions