Dairy producers strive to increase production and efficiency. Consumers want products that
contain less fat and more protein. Negative impacts of pollutants from animal agriculture on the
environment must be controlled. The foregoing can be accomplished by regulating metabolic
processes of the dairy cow through nutrition and biotechnology. The application of genetic
engineering techniques can increase production and its efficiency, change the composition of milk
and improve prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease. Competent nutrition, reproduction
and health programs and improved information systems for managing and utilizing information
will be required.