The Nutritionist

Mar 18, 2021 | The Nutritionist 2021

Mr Aoun provided an excellent, well constructed webinar with information on selection, traditions, and nutritional considerations for profitable fattening and marketing of sheep.

Dr Phil Cardoso’s March 2021 The Nutritionist webinar was a great look at the details of researching transition cow issues.

Dr Andreas Foskolos,University of Thessaly on Dairy Goat Nutrition . Dr Foskolos gave the second of a two-part webinar mini-series on dairy goat nutrition on December 10, 2020. This webinar was a follow-up to the initial webinar on November 12.

Dr Foskolos gave the first of a two-part webinar mini-series on dairy goat nutrition. This webinar acted as an introduction to management systems, breeds, and seasonal differences in nmanaging dairy goats and serves as the foundation for the second webinar on December 10. It was an excellent and detailed presentation followed by extensive questions. The next webinar will cover nutrition and give attedees an opportunity to see the functionality of the Small Ruminants modle in AMTS.Farm.SmallRuminants. Dr Tom Tylutki, of AMTS will join in the discussion. 

This month's webinar with Dr Trevor DeVries focused on nutritional considerations when working with robots herds in the October The Nutritionist. Trevor, whose work at Guelph focuses on best practices in nutrition, housing, and management that promote healthy behaviors in dairy cow health. Trevor has been a past Nutritionist speaker and is much in demand for his current research in robot, or, more accurately, automated milking systems. In his presentation Dr DeVries offered insight on research with free flow and directed flow system, best practices for formulating partially mixed rations (PMR) and pellets, and some of the health risks in robot milked herds. The interest level and subsequent questions for both webinar times was very high. The question period was lengthy with insight and experiences shared both ways. Unfortunately, we had technical issues with the recording of the questions from the morning webinar and have only a partial recording.

Dr Tom Tylutki, the CEO of AMTS, gave us a farm tour of a large upstate New York dairy where he is the nutritionist. We had a chance to walk the cows with Tom. This tour was an overview of what he looks at on farms when he is consulting. Future webinars in 2021 will give a deeper analysis of this farm and the information he looks at when he considers a farm’s nutritional needs. Tom showed us the feed center, milk-calf housing, replacement heifer facilities, dry cows, and lactating cows groups. It was a wonderful, informative tour– the question and answer session from the morning and afternoon allowed for over 3 hours of discussion with topics ranging from calve to crops to production to repro. There is no accompanying PowerPoint. This is a long but very good webinar!

Dr Jennifer Van Os from the University of Wisconsin-Madison was the speaker for The Nutritionist August webinar on the topic of heat stress in cows and calves. Her talk focused on her current research on improving the welfare of dairy cattle by using various methods to reduce heat stress. She discussed the benefit and best methods to deliver cooling water to cattle to help lower the effective temperature for animals during warmer months. Dr Van Os’s research focuses on management practices that help improve the general care of dairy animals in the area of housing, grouping, and heat stress. Jennifer did post-doctoral research in the lab of one of our previous speakers, Nina Von Keyserlingk

Dr Peter Yoder is the Technical Services Manager at Perdue Agribusiness. He recently completed his PhD program in the Hanigan Lab at Virginia Tech. His primary focus was on Amino Acids and dietary nutrient variation. His talk focused on the amino acid requirements in dairy cow nutrition.

His presentation in pdf form:

The Nutritionist 2020 Yoder PDF

Jude is a passionate advocate for animal agriculture and has focused her research on measuring and understanding the affect the agriculture industry has on the environment. As @bovidiva on Twitter, Dr Capper champions greater understanding of the actual impact of agriculture to consumers.     Be sure to check out the rest of the 2020 The Nutritionist series.

Her presentation in pdf form:

The Nutritionist 2020 Capper PDF

The May 2020 The Nutritionist webinar had a focus on the more mechanical and people oriented side of ration formulation. As pioneers int he area of TMR Audits, Diamond V has focused on teaching farmers what the possible areas of deviation can be when looking at reasons cow may not be attaining full performance.   Be sure to check out the rest of the 2020 The Nutritionist series.