Genetic improvement in dairy cows. The essence of true animal production

Abstract

The dairy production has been one of the big areas of the development of the Zootecnia. In her the genetic improvement meets, with achievements in the production of milk, disposition of the udder, speed of milking, variation in the chemical composition, lacteal performance in by-products; likewise, the advance in the nutrition to attend to the requirements of the high volumes of milk, evolution in the systems of production, technological innovations for milking, cleaning and quality insurance of the final product, use of biotechnologies for the optimization of the production and the reproduction, generation of new races and study of possible productive kindness of our genetic local resources. The aim objective of this document, it is in 80 years of the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, to present a brief synopsis of the dairy production, as an honoring to the professionals and dairymen that have taken part in their development, especially the racial bovine groups Lucerne and Hartón of the Valley.

Keywords

• Bovinos
• domesticación
• genética
• Hartón
• zootecnia