This comprehensive textbook integrates new technology and concepts that have been developed in recent years to manage dairy farms in a profitable manner. Dairy production medicine integrates various disciplines and specialties of veterinary medicine into dairy cattle production systems. The approach to the production of livestock and quality milk is multidisciplinary, involving nutrition, reproduction, clinical medicine, genetics, pathology, epidemiology, human resource management and economics. The book is structured by the production cycle of the dairy cow covering critical points in cow management. Written and edited by highly respected experts provides a thoroughly modern and up-to-date resource for all those involved in the dairy industry.