The Dairy Podcast Show

Over the years, a lot of research has been done in the agriculture industry. The purpose is to help producers with new ways to produce more efficiently and sustainably. In today’s episode, Dr. Mark McGuire explains how an ag research facility operates. He focuses on a new facility in Idaho, the Center for Agriculture, Food and the Environment, that is designed to attend to the needs of the agricul...

Heat stress can severely affect the feeding behavior, immune response, and production performance of dairy cows. Besides, it also has the potential to affect not only lactation cows, but calves and dry cows as well. Our guests, Drs. Peter Hansen, Lance Baumgard, and Agustin Rius, have different focuses in their researches on how heat stress impacts those animals. Thus, a round table discussion is...

Forages are crucial to support an adequate diet for cows. Because of that, we must monitor and improve its growth. Also, when it comes to silage management, we need to follow the best practices for harvesting corn silage and haylage. As for optimizing forage quality and fiber digestibility, we must consider weather conditions and other factors. So there’s a lot to be considered, right? In this epi...

Ketosis is a constant and persistent metabolic disorder in post-calving cows on dairy farms. Due to the need to produce more milk, cows cannot consume enough energy to maintain their performance, which leads to a negative energy balance. That's when the cows start mobilizing fat to try to fix the energy problem. The problem is that this culminates in a higher load of ketone bodies and ultimate...

What makes a dairy farm successful? Simply enough: daily improvements in efficiency and every aspect and element of a dairy farm is a contributor. Among all factors, one of the most critical ones is nutrition – and amino acid balance plays a significant role. Additionally, effective management and even employee training can help the cows. In this episode, I talk to Dr. Enrique Schcolnik about impr...

A technology revolution is here and it’s happening right before our eyes. So, to keep improving dairy performance, we must keep up with the latest technology. But where are we regarding tech implementation on dairy farms? We have to take a deeper look at dairy farming to understand the bottlenecks and how technology can help us. In this episode with Aidan Connolly, we talk about technology trends...

We've finally reached our very first episode! To kick off the Dairy Podcast Show, I had a great conversation with Dr. Mike Hutjens, who is heralded as one of the most influential people in dairy nutrition and dairy management in the past 50 years. In this episode, we focus mainly on the principal advances in fiber utilization in dairy rations, one of the hot topics in dairy nutrition research...

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