A multilevel model with clustered management practices differentiating dairy herd environments in southeastern Sicily
The objective was to evaluate a methodology where herd environmental opportunity is specified as afunction of inputs administered through practices ascertained from herd manager interviews comparing it with the frequently-usedHYSD criterion ignoring this causal information.
Prevalence of Mastitis Pathogens in Ragusa, Sicily, from 2000 to 2006
The objective of this study was to report the prevalence of intramammary infections (IMI) in Ragusa, Sicily, from milk samples (n = 18,711) collected between October 2000 and June 2006 from 101 dairy herds.
