Immucell, Inc. (ICCC)

[royg1927]

John,

I haven't been following this coversation so my comment(s) may be less than useless.

That said, as a previous owner/operator of a significant sized dairy, a couple of statements raise questions from my experience.

Spray - easy to apply?? What frequency would be required? Maybe so with feed bunk lock-ups. But I don't want to add a single labor intensive factor unless there is clear indication of a production margin gain of some multiple of the projected cost.

Improve the quantity and quality of milk produced? What milk market prices milk on quality, say SSC count? There is usually a butterfat component, yes, but what favorable effect if any would such treatment provide?

I seriously (very seriously) doubt notions such as systemic low grade infections being related to clinical mastitis. What pathogens by name? Subject to what antibiotic sensitivity tests?
Flies introducing infections through a drop of leaking milk on the teat end (as a significant source of infection?). Seemingly reasonable speculation perhaps, but where is the evidence? The statistically significant double blind trials?

On the positive hand, if (-IF-) it is clear that any device/product/procedure would with certainty result in a significant and sustainable increase in production with low cost of application, such item would result in a stampede for adoption by the commercial dairy industry.

We (the commercial dairymen) are financially astute, practical and hard headed. Whatever "The Thing" is will be shunned pie-in-the-sky if clear advantage is not demonstrable for me and my neighbors down the road.

Not trying to provoke an argument. I have no dog in this fight.