The Nutritionist

The April 2020 The Nutritionist webinar featured Dr Frank Mitloehner on how we can feed the planet without losing it to climate charge wrought by emissions from beef and dairy production.

Dr Goff is the guy in hypocalcemia. He has been involved in research through government, industry, and academia over the last 30 years. This webinar saw many questions from both session audiences. It is a long recording, coming in around 3 hours but packed with information!  Be sure to check out the rest of the 2020 The Nutritionist series.

Dr DeSouza recently completed his PhD working in the lab of Dr Adam Lock, focused on fatty acid nutrition during the transition period in dairy cattle. Jonas focused some of his undergrad and Masters work in the same area while studying in Brazil. There was an extensive question and answer session for this, our first webinar in the 2020 The Nutritionist series.

Dr Drackley, University of Illinois, was scheduled to present in May but had to cancel on the last minute. At the time he offered to return with updated calf feeding recommendations at the end of the year. Since the new NRC recommendations have not yet been released, he gave a presentation on colostrum. This is a great refresher and discussion of issues farms may be having with obtaining high quality colostrum.

Mr Dineen is completing his PhD at Cornell University after which he will return to Ireland where he will hold a position at Teagasc Animal and Grassland Research and Innovation Center in Fermoy. Mike covered some of the research he has done that looks into digestibilities and rates of passage of in Irish pasture-based diets.

Dr Wattiaux offered an excellent presentation on hie research, in collaboration with UW-Madison Departments of Agronomy and Biological Systems Engineering, on the sources of Greenhouse gas emissions on the Dairy farm and what actions can be taken to mitigate those excretions. There were some very excellent questions offered; be sure to listen all the way through!

We were very pleased to host the very well spoken Dr Jenkins for the second time in the Nutritionist webinar history. He provided some recommendations and guidelines for nutritionist striving to maintain a healthy butterfat component in their clients herds.

Dr Fessenden manages much of our biology training for AMTS, especially in Europe. His considerable knowledge of the model biology and experience working with nutritionists around the world combined to produce a very well attended webinar with many questions from the audience. Dr Bill Prokop of Dairy Innovations joined in the discussion.

Geared to the hands-on nutritionist, Dr Niles Jennett from Chandler, Arizona, USA, gives a detailed talk on his approach to better herd ration management. We had unfortunate recording difficulties during the afternoon presentation and were unable to capture the question period. We did get a question from our Spanish language translation and have added that to the recording of the evening session

Dr Dahl has conducted considerable research into the effects of heat stress. This talk focused on his studies that have shown correlations to reduced milk production by the dam in the lactation following dry period heat stress. He also discussed the lifetime performance of daughters born to heat stressed dams.