Real Science Exchange-Dairy

Guests: Dr. Bill Weiss, The Ohio State University; Dr. Matt Akins, University of Wisconsin  Co-host: Dr. Clay Zimmerman, Balchem Air date – April 26, 2022 2203-045 Today’s podcast is the latest installment of the Journal Club where we take a closer look at some of the newest research published around the world. Today we are focused on research centered around dietary energy and genomic residual fe...

Guests: Dr. Gavin Staley, Diamond V and Dr. Al Kertz, ANDHIL LLC Co-host: Dr. Glen Aines, Balchem Today’s episode is focused on one of our most important resources: calves. Calves set the trajectory of our herd and represent our future productivity and profitability. In this Real Science Exchange episode, we will show how appropriate investment in young stock will pay off big in later years.  Dr....

Guests: Dr. Israel Flamenbaum, Cow Cooling Solutions; Dr. Shimon Carmi, SH Design; and Dr. Lance Baumgard, Iowa State University Spring is upon us in most parts of the world and the heat of summer will not be far behind. The impact that heat has on our cows can be devastating. Today’s episode will focus on managing dairy cows in high heat environments which takes a combination of mechanical interv...

Guests: Dr. Tom Rathje and Dr. Jason Schneider both with DNA Genetics Today’s episode dives into the genetic advancements made in the swine industry and the impact those advancements have on all other parameters. Joining us to help dig into this genetics topic are Dr. Tom Rathje and Dr. Jason Schneider, both with DNA Genetics.  Dr. Rathje spoke about how genetic change has accelerated in recent ye...

Guests: Dr. Mary Beth Hall, USDA; Dr. Mike Van Amburgh, Cornell University; Dr. David Mertens, Mertens Innovation & Research Today’s episode is a fan-favorite, the Legacy Series. In this series we celebrate the pioneers of the industry, take a look back at their research, their impact and their lives. Specifically today we are honoring and memorializing Dr. Peter J. Van Soest. Dr. Soest passed awa...

On this episode of the Real Science Exchange we are looking into 2022 and what is shaping up for agriculture around the globe.  Brett Stewart thinks that with the expansion of the world-wide money supply, current prices won’t break lower, and especially not in commodity markets. (6:26) John Bedell spoke about the five headwinds, which are: increased demand, constrained supply, commodity price pres...

On this episode of the Real Science Exchange we focus on ways to improve protein utilization in dairy cows to reduce our overall environmental footprint.  Dr. Chris Reynolds said that moving towards precision feeding and feeding animals closer to dietary requirements would reduce surplus nitrogen. (8:19) It was mentioned by Dr. Mark Hanigan that a small, internal survey was taken in which nutritio...

Guests: Dr. Charlie Elrod, Natural Biologics and Dr. Josh Jackman, Tropical Innovations/Sungkyunkwan University Co-host: Dr. Ken Sanderson, Balchem Today’s podcast tackles a big topic in the global swine industry - African Swine Fever Virus (ASFV). This virus has recently been reported in Thailand and continues to spread throughout the globe. While North America looks for any sign of ASFV, it cont...

Guests: Dr. Bill Weiss, The Ohio State University; Dr. Jesse Goff, Iowa State University Co-host: Dr. Clay Zimmerman, Balchem Today’s podcast is our January installment of the Journal Club, styled after the traditional journal clubs at universities across the country and around the world. Today we’re a closer look at some of the newest research published in the Journal of Dairy Science. Article 1:...

Guests: Drs. Clay Zimmerman, Glen Aines, Eric Altom, Jeff Elliott As we close out 2021 we want to take a few minutes to look back. The Real Science Exchange was started to have a more in-depth and intimate conversation with our guests from the Real Science Lecture Series. We began in the fall of 2020 and have modeled this podcast after the time spent around the pub table at scientific meetings. Th...

Guests: Dr. Chad Paulk, Kansas State University and Dr. JT Pope, Nutritionist at House of Raeford Farms Co-host: Dr. Zack Lowman, Balchem Today’s podcast is part of a continuing conversation started during the Real Science Lecture Series, where we look deeper into the impact of thermal processing on protein quality and the forms of thermal processing in the industry.  Dr. Chad Paulk mentioned ther...

Guests: Dr. Jordan Gebhardt, Kansas State University and Dr. Chad Paulk, Kansas State University Co-host: Dr. Zack Lowman, Balchem Tonight we are talking feed supply biosecurity and the many challenges we face as we try to keep various animal diseases at bay. In late July, the USDA announced that African Swine Fever was detected in the Dominican Republic, inching dangerously close to the U.S. swin...

Guests: Dr. Bill Weiss, The Ohio State University and Dr. Rich Erdman, University of Maryland Tonight we finish the conversation on the new NRC with two legends in the industry. We’ll first focus on macro minerals, trace minerals and vitamins, but then we’ll also put a bow on the NRC series and wrap it up for our listeners tonight.  Dr. Bill Weiss says the new NRC defines “requirements” which was...

Guests:  Dr. Mary Beth Hall with the USDA Dr. Paul Kononoff from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Co-host: Dr. Clay Zimmerman, Balchem We continue our discussions on the new 2021 dairy NRC, now known as NASEM. This is a follow-up to our Real Science Lecture series of five webinars that officially unveiled the content back in September. We’ll be breaking down the feed intake and carbohydrates sec...

Guests:  Dr. Jim Drackley, University of Illinois  Dr. Bill Weiss, The Ohio State University Dr. Mike VandeHaar, Michigan State University Tonight, we continue our discussions with the authors of each chapter of the new NASEM, formerly the dairy NRC. We’re focusing on dry cows, calves and heifers for our conversation and it should be a lively one. Here is a link to the webinar on the new report: h...

Guests: Dr. Mark Hanigan, Virginia Tech Dr. Jeff Firkins, The Ohio State Dr. Hélène Lapierre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Our Dairy NRC series of Real Science webinars was very well received and tonight we are talking about the chapter on protein and amino acids. Dr. Mark Hanigan discussed the sections his team worked on in the new NRC. First thing was updating the feed library. After the fee...

Guests:  Dr. Lou Armentano, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Dr. Mike Vandehaar, Michigan State University. Co-host: Dr. Glen Aines, Balchem We are just coming off a very successful Real Science Lecture Series set of five webinars where we unveiled the new 2021 dairy NRC, a chapter at a time, and we can’t wait to have these sit-down conversations with each of our presenters and their guest. Dr....

Guests:  Jim Ostrom, MilkSource, with locations in Wisconsin, Michigan and Missouri Pat Maddox, RuAnn Genetics and Maddox Dairy in California Jonathan Lamb, Oakfield Corners Dairy and Lamb Farms in New York & Ohio Co-host: Brian Garrison, Balchem Animal Nutrition & Health We are so excited to come to you from the World Dairy Expo today. We are happy to be back at World Dairy Expo in Madison in 202...

Guests: Dr. Paul Kononoff, University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Dr. Logan Morris, Perdue AgriBusiness. Co-host is Dr. Clay Zimmerman. As we move into the fall and new silage is going into the bunkers, we wanted to take a closer look at energy metabolism and the mechanics of feed efficiency. Let’s talk about heat production and metabolism. Dr. Paul Kononoff joined us for a webinar on August 4th, 2021...

Guests: Dr. Bill Weiss, The Ohio State University; Dr. Paul Kononoff, University of Nebraska, and Journal of Dairy Science Editor-In-Chief. Co-host: Dr. Clay Zimmerman, Balchem We’re excited to introduce a new segment into our podcast rotation; The Journal Club. Styled after the traditional journal clubs convened at universities across the US, we’ll take a closer look at some of the newest researc...

Guests: Dr. Frank Mitloehner, University of California, Davis; Dr. Jim Wallace, Dairy Management, Inc.; Dr. Juan Tricarico, Dairy Management, Inc. and Caleb Harper, Dairy Scale for Good In May 2021 the Florida Ruminant Nutrition Conference’s Preconference Symposium titled, “Your Practical Guide to Achieving Net Zero Carbon Emissions” welcomed five speakers and a Q&A session to follow. This was spo...

Guests: Dr. Bob James, Down Home Heifer Solutions and Dr. Ed Kreykes, GPS Dairy Consulting.  Calves are the future of every operation and represent a huge investment in both time and money before they make it to the milking string. But those first two years are the foundation for the rest of their productive lives. Tonight, we get to talk all things calves. From colostrum processes to feeding prot...

Guests: Dr. Ric Grummer, Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Dr. Jesse Goff, Iowa State University; Dr. Heather White, University of Wisconsin-Madison Tonight is our second installment of what we call our legacy series. The legacy series honor those individuals that have a profound impact on our industry. For this conversation, we're going to zero in on the history of transition c...

Guests:  Dr. Chris Ashwell, North Carolina State University  Chandler Keck, Graduate Student, North Carolina State University Tonight, we're going to switch it up a little bit and address some issues within the monogastric realm, but the ideas are ones that are generating a lot of interest across all segments of animal agriculture. And that topic is transgenerational inheritance. Dr. Chris Ashwell...

Guests:  Dr. Tom Overton, Cornell University Corwin Holtz, Holtz-Nelson Dairy Consultants The last 18 months have been challenging for the ag industry, and we've seen a rollercoaster of milk prices throughout the COVID pandemic. As the world begins to normalize, we can now shift our focus to impacting efficiency and profitability across the dairy operation. Tonight, we’re going to get really pract...