PAPERS PRESENTED AT THE GENERAL SESSION

President's Report - Commendations and Challenges
Woody Pankey, NMC President, Univ. of Vermont, Burlington, VT

Findings of the Wisconsin Stray Voltage Analysis Team
Don Bosman, Wisconsin Dept. of Agriculture, Madison, WI

Research in Stray Voltage
Dan Aneshansley, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

Udder Health in the United States: Report of the NMC Milk Quality Monitoring Committee
Rick Bennett, University of California, Santa Rosa, CA

Impact of Mastitis on Dairy Product Quality and Yield: Research Update
Dave Barbano, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

Bulk Milk Bacterial Culturing - An Aid to Quality Milk Production
Tom Emerson, Northwest Dairymen's Association, Seattle, WA

Developing a Milk Quality Program
John Cockrell, University of Wisconsin-Extension, Darlington, WI

Automatic Mastitis Detection in the Milking Parlor
Wim Rossing, Institute of Agricultural Engineering, Wageningen, The Netherlands

From Cow Identification to Fully Automatic Milking
Wim Rossing, Institute of Agricultural Engineering, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Recent Advances in Automatic Acquisition and Analysis of Individual Cow Data
Sid Spahr, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL

Expert Systems: Entry Into the Information Age
Michael Tomaszewski, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

Vaccination Against Staphylococcus aureus Mastitis
Dennis Watson, CSIRO Div. of Animal Health, Armidale, Australia

Investigation of and Resolution of Herd Mastitis Due to Staphylococcus aureus
John McDonald, Washington State University, Pullman, WA

Staphylococcus aureus Specific Antibodies in Cow Milk
Scott Adams, Veterinary Medical Research and Development, Inc., Pullman, WA

The Relationship of Machine Milking and Mastitis
David Galton, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

What U.S. Milking Machine Standards?
Robert Dawson, Agri Market Service, St. Charles, IL

Experiences With the Introduction of U.S. Style Machines
Peter Parker, Milking Machine Testing and Mastitis Control, Combria, England

Managed Milking Procedures Can Make a Difference
Roger Mellenberger, Michigan State University, E. Lansing, MI

How To Do a System Analysis
Ben Harrington, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

POSTERS PRESENTED AT THE TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER SESSION

Milk quality programs - knowledge and practices.
A.N. Bringe and K. Bolton. University of Wisconsin, Madison WI

Educational strategy to improve udder health in dairy herds that have practiced teat dipping and administered dry cow therapy for several years.
R.R. Peters, E.K. Cassel, R.C. Eickelberger, J.E. Manspeaker, and L.E. Stewart. University of Maryland, College Park, MD

Delivering producer education via mini videos.
R.R. Peters, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD and J.K. Reneau, B.J. Conlin and G.R. Steuernagel, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN

Stall barn milking routine video.
J.K. Reneau, B.J. Conlin, R.D. Appleman, R.J. Farnsworth, Univ. of Minn., St. Paul, MN and A.N. Bringe, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

Machine XPERT: An expert system for trouble shooting and correcting milking system problems.
B.J. Conlin, J.K. Reneau, R.D. Appleman and R.J. Farnsworth. University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN

Mastitis Manager: A software package for analysis and decision making using clinical mastitis data from PCDART-DHI herds.
R.L. De La Sota, M.A. DeLorenzo, D.W. Webb, and R.P. Natzke. University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

Staphylococcus aureus intramammary infections in first lactation cows at calving: preliminary evaluation.
J.R. Roberson and L.K. Fox. Washington State University, Pullman, WA

Prevalence and treatment of intramammary infections in breeding age and in pregnant dairy heifers.
P. Trinidad and S.C. Nickerson. Hill Farm Research Station, Louisiana State Univ., Homer, LA

Hematogenous route of infection in mastitis-metritis syndrome.
S.K. Prabhakar, K.B. Singh, and D.C. Nauriyal. Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, India

Kill mechanisms and residues of three common teat dip germicides.
E. Bonewitz and M. Winicov. West Agro, Inc., Kansas City, MO

Improvement in milk quality with use of a germicidal barrier teat dip utilizing chlorous acid/chlorine dioxide.
R. Annis and K. Schultz. Alcide Corp., Norwalk, CT

Chlorhexidine as a teat dip component.
C. Good and F. Wuertz. Lonza, Inc., Fair Lawn, NJ

Effectiveness of low iodine concentration teat dips on new intramammary infections and associated residues in milk.
J.P. Scolaro. IBA, Inc., Millbury, MA

Effectiveness of teat dips and udder wash antimicrobials against Listeria monocytogenes isolated from mastitic cows.
J. Lichorat, K. Rossmore, and C. Drenzek. Diversey Wyandotte Corp., Wyandotte, MI

Measuring milking machine liner slips.
S.B. Spencer. Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA

Antibiotic testing: a simpler way.
T.K. Brock. Idetek, Inc., San Bruno, CA

New residue testing technologies.
R.H. Suva and T.Y. Lin. IDEXX Corp., Portland, ME

The use of a novel intramammary infusion syringe to facilitate partial insertion of the bovine teat canal.
S.F. Sutherland. Fort Dodge Laboratories, Inc., Fort Dodge, IA

Evaluation of a diagnostic scheme and therapy of coliform mastitis.
G.E. Ward and G.F. Jones. University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN

Effects of storage on viability of mastitis pathogens.
P.A. Murdough, J.K. Wadsworth, J.W. Pankey, and E.E. Wildman. University of Vermont, Burlington, VT

Monitoring of udder health by in-line milk conductivity.
S.L. Spahr, H.B. Puckett, R.S. Fernando, R. Surber and K. Zeil. University of Illinois, Urbana and USDA-ARS, Urbana, IL

Use of flow cytometry in diagnosis of mastitis.
M.J. Paape, L.M. Berning, S.K. Salgar, M. Worku, and R.R. Peters. USDA-ARS, Beltsville, MD and University of Maryland, College Park, MD

Assessment of the predictive value of N-acetyl-B-D-glucosaminidase (NAGase) for bovine mastitis.
L.M. Berning, Univ., of Maryland, College Park, MD and G.E. Shook, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

Using N-acetyl-B-D-glucosaminidase (NAGase) activity and other milk indicators to predict subclinical mastitis.
R.H. Miller, M.J. Paape, A.J. Guidry, and L.M. Berning. USDA-ARS, Beltsville, MD and University of Maryland, College Park, MD

NAGase, WMT, microbiology results, and associated change in milk production for clinical mastitis cases on a dairy farm.
D.J. Wilson and P.C. Bartlett. Michigan State University, E. Lansing, MI

On farm application of disc flotation test for measurement of catalase activity for rapid screening of mastitic milk.
P.C. Vasavada. University of Wisconsin, River Falls, WI

An immunobinding test for Mycoplasma bovis in milk.
F. Infante and D.E. Jasper. University of California, Davis, CA

Use of a new enzyme linked immunosorbent assay for a program of identification, segregation and culling of Staph aureus infected cows.
S. Adams, T. Matsushita, and J. McDonald. ProScience Corp., Sterling, VA

Evaluation of flourogenic assays for differentiation of Streptococcus species of bovine origin.
K.R. Mathews, S.P. Oliver, and B.E. Gillespie. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

The Minnesota Bulk Tank Culture System.
R.J. Farnsworth. University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN

Bacterial and somatic cell counts in bulk tank milk from nine well- managed farms.
J.S. Hogan, K.L. Smith, D.A. Todhunter, and P.S. Schoenberger. The Ohio State University, Wooster, OH

Vitamin E and selenium influences on mastitis and milk quality.
J.S. Hogan, K.L. Smith, D.A. Todhunter, and P.S. Schoenberger. The Ohio State University, Wooster, OH

Effect of supplemental selenium on experimental mastitis.
R.J. Erskine, R.J. Eberhart, R.W. Scholz, and P.J. Grasso. Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA

Effect of selenium repletion on DNA-synthesis by bovine blood lymphocytes cultured in vitro in selenium deficient calf serum.
J.R. Stabel, B.J. Nonnecke, and T.A. Reinhardt. USDA-ARS, Ames, IA

In vitro and in vivo effects of 1,25 dihydroxy vitamin D3 on DNA-synthesis by bovine peripheral blood lymphocytes.
F.G. Hustmyer, B.J. Nonnecke, J.P. Goff, D.C. Beitz, R.L.

PAPERS PRESENTED AT THE 1988 REGIONAL MEETING

Antibiotic Residues in Milk
Curtis Miller, The Upjohn Co., Kalamazoo, MI

Pure Milk is the Goal
Cindy Emmons, West Agro, Inc., Kansas City, MO

Dairy Cooperatives' Response to Recent Drug Related Issues
John Adams, National Milk Producers Federation, Arlington, VA

Improving Milk Quality Through Cow Management
David Kelbert, Dairy Herd Health Services, Jacksonville, FL

Milking Systems and Milk Quality
Frank McClellan, Dairy Equipment Co., Madison, WI

Cooling Ponds and Milk Quality
David Bray, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

Microbiological Methods for Raw Milk Quality Evaluation
Ronald Schmidt, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL