Real Science Exchange Balchem Animal Nutrition & Health

Guests: Dr. Bill Weiss, Ohio State University; Dr. Alex Hristov, Penn State University

This journal club episode comes to you from the 2024 Tri-State Dairy Nutrition Conference. The paper is “Practical Aspects of Reducing Carbon Footprint by Dairy Farms Through Feeding” from the conference proceedings.

Guests: Dr. Bill Weiss, Ohio State University; Dr. John Newbold, Scotland Rural College

This journal club episode comes to you from the 2024 Tri-State Dairy Nutrition Conference. The paper is “Methane in the context of circular dairy farming” from the conference proceedings.

Guests: Dr. Mike Van Amburgh, Cornell University; Dr. Mark Hanigan, Virginia Tech University; Dr. Alex Hristov, Penn State University; Dr. Chanhee Lee, The Ohio State University

This episode comes to you from the 2024 Tri-State Dairy Nutrition Conference, where Balchem sponsored a Real Science symposium titled “New Discussions in Amino Acid Nutrition.” Each of our guests presented at the symposium, and their presentations can be found at balchem.com/realsciencemedia

Guests: Dr. Kevin Dhuyvetter, Elanco & Dr. Phillip Jardon, Iowa State University Extension

While Dr. Jardon only had milk in his glass for this pubcast, he did share about his bottle of “wheyskey” (whiskey made from whey) from Wheyward Spirit Distillery in California (https://www.wheywardspirit.com/). Iowa State Dairy Extension is offering a webinar, “Fermentation and Distillation of Whey to Produce Spirits at Copper Crow,” on May 15 at noon Central. Curtis Basina of Copper Crow Distillery in Bayfield, WI, will be the speaker. You can sign up for the webinar at https://go.iastate.edu/WHEY (4:13)

Guests: Dr. Greg Penner and Claire Bertens, University of Saskatchewan

Dr. Penner describes two primary factors of gut health to be absorption and barrier function or permeability. His lab’s work on permeability is suggesting that intestinal regions really drive total gut permeability to a much greater extent than ruminal permeability in dairy cows.

Guests: Dr. Bill Weiss, The Ohio State University; Dr. Marcia Endres, University of Minnesota

Dr. Endres begins with a description of a dataset she collected containing individual body weights from 34 robotic milking herds. Weights were collected for every cow; every time that she came into the robotic milking station. Dr. Endres’ team was interested in the relationship between the amount of body weight change in the first 21 days of lactation and subsequent production. (7:34)