Dairy Focus PaperCast

In the first episode of the Dairy Focus Lab's new "PaperCast" series, Dr. Jim Drackley and Dr. Phil Cardoso of the University of Illinois discuss a symposium review on nutrition strategies for improved health, production, and fertility during the transition period. Links to papers mentioned in this episode Symposium review: Nutrition strategies for improved health, production, and f...

In the second episode of the Dairy Focus Lab's new "PaperCast" series, Dr. Jim Drackley and Dr. Phil Cardoso of the University of Illinois continue their discussion of a symposium review on nutrition strategies for improved health, production, and fertility during the transition period. Links to papers mentioned in this episode Symposium review: Nutrition strategies for improved hea...

In the last of three episodes that make up the first installment of the Dairy Focus Lab's new "PaperCast" series, Dr. Jim Drackley and Dr. Phil Cardoso of the University of Illinois continue their discussion of a symposium review on nutrition strategies for improved health, production, and fertility during the transition period. Links to papers mentioned in this episode FREE version...

Dr. Phil Cardoso of the University of Illinois and Dr. Jackie Boerman of Purdue University discuss a review of published literature reporting protein mobilization measurements and potential methods to quantify protein mobilization that was performed to provide information about the timing and extent of tissue mobilization for dairy cattle. Links to papers mentioned in this episode McCabe and Boerm...

Dr. Stephen LeBlanc of the Ontario Veterinary College at the University of Guelph joins Dr. Phil Cardoso of the University of Illinois for a chat about metabolic disorders and fertility. Links to publications mentioned in this episode Dairy Cattle Fertility (FE20) https://hoards.com/article-27434-dairy-cattle-fertility-(fe20).html Book details: 121 pages 8.5 x 11 inches Softcover, perfect bound Fu...

Dr. Bill Weiss and Alex Tebbe of the Department of Animal Sciences at The Ohio State University join Dr. Phil Cardoso of the University of Illinois to discuss their recent paper about the effects of oscillating dietary crude protein concentrations on production, nutrient digestion, plasma metabolites, and body composition in lactating dairy cows. Links to papers mentioned in this episode Tebbe and...

Dr. Phil Cardoso and Dr. Jim Drackley of the University of Illinois and Dr. Bruce Richards of Delaware Valley University discuss their recent paper comparing prepartum low-energy or high-energy diets with a 2-diet far-off and close-up strategy for multiparous and primiparous cows. Links to papers mentioned in this episode Richards et al. 2020, Comparison of prepartum low-energy or high-energy diet...

Dr. Phil Cardoso and Dr. Adam Lock of Michigan State University discuss Dr. Lock’s recent study on the effect of supplementing two major fatty acids, palmitic and oleic acid, in different ratios on milk production in high-, medium- and low-producing cows. Links to papers mentioned in this episode Western et al. 2020, Milk production responses to altering the dietary ratio of palmitic and oleic aci...

Dr. Phil Cardoso talks with Dr. Kate Creutzinger of the University of Guelph and Dr. Katy Proudfoot of the University of Prince Edward Island about the effects of prepartum stocking density and a blind on physiological biomarkers, health, and hygiene of transition Holstein dairy cows. Links to papers mentioned in this episode Creutzinger et al. 2020, Effects of prepartum stocking density and a bli...

Dr. Phil Cardoso talks with Dr. Peter Erickson and Tess Stahl of the University of New Hampshire about the effects of feeding diets containing supplementary sodium butyrate and monensin on growth performance, nutrient digestibility, and health in postweaned heifers.   Links to papers mentioned in this episode Stahl TC, Hatungimana E, Klanderman KD, Moreland SC, Erickson PS. 2020. Sodium butyrate a...

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas that traps energy far more efficiently than carbon dioxide. Reduction of methane emissions is thus essential to slowing climate change, and livestock are a major source of these emissions. Dr. Phil Cardoso talks with Dr. Alex Hristov of Penn State University about nutritional strategies for mitigating production of methane by dairy cattle. They discuss the effect...

The SLICK haplotype, originally identified in Senepol cattle, has been introduced into Holsteins. Inheritance of the SLICK1 allele of the prolactin receptor gene improves thermotolerance of lactating Holstein cows under humid heat stress conditions. Dr. Anna Denicol of the University of California-Davis, along with her research group, recently published a study on whether pre- and postweaning Hols...