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Dairy farmer says pasteurization research might help
A dairy farmer would like to see more research into feeding pasteurized milk and colostrum to calves. Ron Brooks from Waupaca, Wisconsin chose not to add pasteurization equipment when the family built a new dairy calf barn. Brooks tells Brownfield, “I had veterinarians and professors telling us, ‘Oh no, don’t pasteurize’ and I had others saying, ‘You must pasteurize’ and my question to both of them was, ‘If I’m not going to pasteurize the most important meal that calf gets, what’s the point of pasteurizing anything else after that?”
The Brooks Farm has one cow with an abnormally high somatic cell count, and that milk is fed to calves along with the milk of animals being treated.
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