Impact of Nutrition on Milk Production and Quality in Small Dairy Production Systems
A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Cattle".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 September 2026 | Viewed by 1532
Special Issue Editors
Interests: small dairy systems; supplementation strategies; sustainable dairy systems; forage-based dairy sysems; grazing
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Small production dairy systems are overlooked in important scientific publications, although they play an important role around the world, contributing to food security and economic development in rural areas due to their generation of regular incomes and employment that results in poverty reduction. These small dairy systems use forages as the main source of feed for their cattle, resulting in competitive production costs. Although small production systems face challenges regarding natural resources, environmental impact, efficiency, financial viability, quality of products, and commercialization as the most important.
Therefore, the aim of this Special Issue will be to gather reports of small dairy production systems around the world that highlight the importance of these systems on the following topics:
- Socioeconomic and productive aspects;
- Use of local resources for milk production;
- Milk production based on alternative forages;
- Milk production based on pastures and grazing systems;
- Milk production in agrosilvopastoral systems;
- Supplementation strategies;
- Economic analysis of small dairy systems;
- Quality of products;
- Milk processing, transformation, commercialization, and added value.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Benito Albarrán-Portillo
Dr. Anastacio García-Martínez
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- small scale dairy
- grazing
- forage-based dairy
- alternative forages
- socioeconomic
- dairy under agrosilvopastoral systems
- local breeds
- tropical and subtropical dairy systems
- supplementation strategies
- dual purpose systems
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