Dairy Resources for Farm and Animal

The need to improve output to feed our growing population has driven the adoption of science-based solutions to increase productivity. Learn about solutions to support today's productivity and help you meet tomorrow's requirements from environmental management of water, soil, and waste through to selective breeding and veterinary diagnostics.

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Bovine herd outbreaks can be economically devastating to farms and their local food supplies. Our qPCR and ELISA diagnostic solutions offer fast, scalable, and accurate performance to ensure you stay ahead of any pathogenic outbreak and can take action quickly to ensure the safety of the rest of the herd.

Designed with veterinary laboratories in mind, our veterinary microbiology solutions include a complete range of high-quality culture media, identification and susceptibility testing products, and automated Johne’s Disease instrumentation and reagents. From standard, veterinary-specific solutions to custom formularies and fully automated instrumentation, no one is more committed to bringing more to animal testing.

Water and effluent management is an important part of any dairy farm business. Good practices can reduce costs, increase productivity, and reduce the risk of pathogenetic organisms that cause Johne's disease, mastitis and other animal and plant disease. We offer solutions to support the analysis and monitoring of drinking water, surface water, groundwater, and wastewater to comply with legislation and regulations.

Processing of waste water requires effective management of microbioal load before efflux. The TECTA™ system can provide rapid 24/7 online reporting to maximise wastewater treatment and minimise delays in release. This testing can be initiated with minimal staff training and performed onsite to provide fast insight into the treatment process's efficacy and reduce the chance of a costly early release event.

Soil testing has a long history in local agriculture, and has contributed significantly to productivity, sustainability and safety. The term “soil testing” refers to the full range of chemical, physical and biological tests run on a soil sample. Farmers can use these parameters to identify nutritional capacity deficits through to microbial and toxic contaminations to enable improved farm management.

We offer three reagent kits for cattle parentage testing and identification using microsatellite (STR) loci. The Thermo Scientific Bovine Genotyping kits allow co-amplification of the microsatellites in a single multiplex PCR reaction.

Molecular breeding can significantly reduce the cost and time required to deliver improved plant and animal species for agricultural use. Advancements in genomic technologies are accelerating these breeding programs by enabling higher-throughput genotyping across large populations than ever before.

Affymetrix agrigenomic genotyping solutions provide breeders and researchers with a powerful and flexible range of genotyping tools to identify, validate, and screen complex genetic traits in plants and animals. Our robust, highly reproducible, and scalable products facilitate marker-assisted selection, genome-wide association studies, quantitative trait loci, parentage, and traceability, all of which help fast track your genomic selection programs.

Genetic variation is present in many different forms in the genome, ranging from large, structural, chromosomal changes to single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). SNP’s can be associated with positive and negative traits in dairy products; an example is β casein - A1/A2. Thermo Fisher Scientific is committed to providing simple, scalable and affordable instruments, reagents, and next-generation solutions for plant and animal genotyping applications. 

Biochemical, immunological or molecular identification, the choice is yours. Accurate, simple, rapid and convenient solutions to suit all of your identification needs, available in one place. 

Satisfy your antimicrobial susceptibility testing requirements with high performance automated and manual test products to ensure livestock are the most appropriate treatment plan.

Streamline your microbiology workflow with our wide range of equipment designed to optimize your workflow from sample preparation to inoculation to enumeration.

From simple plastic containers to advanced fast drying swabs, using the right sample collector is essential in getting reliable, interpretable results.