Chapitrage et résumé Vicky Brisson (01:54) Tout récemment, Jefo a fêté son 40ᵉ anniversaire. Pouvez-vous nous raconter les débuts de Jefo ? Jean Fontaine Ça prend un petit peu de temps à expliquer tout ça, mais les débuts étaient très modestes. J'ai commencé à 25 ans avec le choix de faire faillite ou de commencer à faire de l'argent. Dans le domai…

Timestamps & Summary Chris Gwyn (02:05) JEFO recently celebrated its 40th anniversary. Can you share with us and with the audience the story of how JEFO started? Jean Fontaine JEFO started very modestly. I was out of school, 25 years old, and I had a choice to declare bankruptcy or try something. And I had a vision to offer our industry different s…

Timestamps & Summary Chris Gwyn (02:11) I'd like to know a little more about why you became interested in researching ideal topic density. Dr. Albert De Vries I actually had an intern student from the Netherlands, and that student was very interested in welfare. And I said: If we just do welfare in the US, maybe that's not of primary interest to pr…

Timestamps & Summary Vicki Brisson (01:44) As an introduction, can you explain what de novo fatty acid synthesis is? Dr. Débora Santschi To me, the fatty acids are basically if we would take that black box of fat, the milk fat test, open it up, and look at what's inside of it. So, if we take, for example, a herd that is at 4% fat, if we open it up,…

Timestamps & Summary Chris Gwyn (01:57) Animal welfare and perhaps its impacts on health are hot topics in the livestock industry today. Can you please share how you became interested in these topics? Dr. Marina Von Keyserlingk That started probably in my head, let's say 25 years ago. As you alluded to in the introduction, I did a Ph.D. in Animal S…

Timestamps & Summary Dr. Greg Eckerle (02:01) In your opinion, what can we expect to see numbers of dairy and dairy and beef crosses in feedlots in the future? Dr. Pedro Carvalho That's really a hot topic right now. I've been working with Holstein since I started grad school, and in the past few years, we've seen this increasing the utilization of …

Timestamps & Summary Chris Gwyn (01:28) Can you explain what brought you to the study of cow handling specifically? Dr. Jennifer Van Os I started here at UW Madison about five and a half years ago, and as you mentioned, I'm in an applied research and extension outreach role. And so, I think it's really important that all the work that I do resonate…

Timestamps & Summary Dr. Greg Eckerley (01:59) Looking at muscle development, what roles do we see coenzymes play in upregulating energy to help with growth? Dr. Bradley Johnson […] [the] energy needs for both postnatal muscle growth as well as the functionality of skeletal muscle that being contraction, we need a lot of ATP. And of course, we know…

Timestamps & Summary Dr. Greg Eckerle (01:24) Do we normally call that intestinal acidosis outside of the agricultural university complex? Dr. Greg Penner I think probably the most common term that's used is hindgut acidosis rather than intestinal acidosis. And it probably makes sense given where we think most of that fermentation activity would oc…

Timestamps and Summary 1:54 How do you feel about Meatless Monday? Jess Pryles I don’t feel much about Meatless Monday. It’s more of a fad […] 3:23 What can we be doing as an industry and as individuals, family-owned operations to impact our consumer demand more positively? Jess Pryles I think just telling the story, there are a lot of great social…

Timestamps and Summary Vicki Brisson (01:56) Can you share more about the role and importance of amino acids to support the dairy industry’s sustainability initiatives? Dr. Izabelle Teixeira I think balancing for amino acids is really important and can play a very important role in improving sustainability and can be a way of leveraging nutrition t…

Timestamps & Summary Chris Gwyn (02:09) So John, in your work in advising agricultural businesses, and perhaps dairies in particular, talk to us about the strain that the current financial stressors of higher interest rates, softening milk prices and continuing high commodity prices cause at the farm level. John Ellsworth I think with inflation tha…

Timestamps & Summary Dr. Greg Eckerle (01:34) Do we see an increase in interest in vitamin nutrition in cattle over the past years? And if so, what has sparked the resurgence of looking at vitamins again? Dr. Jason Warner When we think about cattle nutrition, I think it's certainly an area that we've seen some increased awareness and interest in th…

Timestamps & Summary Vicky Brisson (01:33) Can you share with our audience what are the main diseases you observe and what the economic impacts of these diseases are? Dr. Jessica McArt As a dairy veterinarian, I see all sorts of diseases, and new ones every week, I feel. But the main diseases I see working on farms or with mastitis are early lactat…

Timestamps & Summary Vicky Brisson (02:20) In the last decade, modeling is a research method that's growing in popularity. However, mathematical modeling and livestock nutrition has been around for much longer than that. Can you explain models and what limitations they have? Dr. Jennifer Ellis A model can be anything from a single equation to a set…

Timestamps and Summary Dr. Greg Eckerle (02:05) When we see where we’re at with the cattle cycle, where do you think the next three to five years of production are going to go? Dr. Lee Schulz Just to give a bit of background, the cattle inventory cycle has three phases. It has expansion, has liquidation, has a turnaround phase. We’re currently in t…

Timestamps and Summary Vicky Brisson (02:24) Can you please explain why and how cows may benefit from an increased supply of B vitamins? Dr. Mélissa Duplessis I'm going to focus on two B vitamins, folate and vitamin B12, as these two vitamins have been extensively studied by our research group […] Christiane Girard, who has tremendously increased t…

Timestamps and Summary Chris Gwyn (04:01) Why the advocacy for safety related to silage management has become so important to you, both personally and professionally? Doug DeGroff It’s because I’m a silage avalanche survivor that it’s near and dear to my heart. I was young and quite confident and with an attitude of “it can’t happen to me.” But my …

Timestamps & Summary 1:56 As a young person growing up in dairy operations, tell me about the obstacles that you had to overcome in order to pursue a career in agriculture. Vicky Brisson I was really lucky growing up on my family's dairy farm, because I grew up with plenty of excellent role models, whether that be my parents being involved in the c…

Timestamps & Summary 2:59 I was wondering if you could review some of the highlights for the audience to remind us of those key important areas. Dr. Bill Weiss For most minerals, what the committee tried to do is start at the cell. And we calculate, for example, how much mineral goes out and milk, how much mineral is free if an animal is growing, h…

Timestamps & Summary 1:49 Maybe share with the audience your personal and professional journey to starting Eyes on Horizon Consulting. Monica McConkey I am a farm girl, I grew up on a farm in northwestern Minnesota. And when I was younger, we had beef and hogs and crops. […] I grew up in the 80s when the farm crisis was really difficult. And I reme…

Timestamps & Summary 1:25 Would you share what you see as the current state of mental health in rural communities, farm communities, particularly in Canada, and in Ontario more specifically? Dr. Deborah Vanberkel It's really starting to be the up-and-coming sort of topic once people are starting to know about it. Even five years ago, when we starte…

Timestamps & Summary 4:56 Tell me what you see as some of the key impacts of adopting precision, nutrition approach. Dr. Abdallah Zankar Precision nutrition is a way to make an animal use a diet and the nutrients in a more efficient way. How can we make these animals use the feed efficiently? This is the main target behind every farmer, every nutri…

Timestamps & Summary 2:48 Let's remind the audience where you see the current status of reproductive efficiency in the North American dairy herd. Dr. Eduardo Ribeiro If we look at every metric, in large datasets from both the US as well as Canada, they tell the same story. And I think the first message that they tell us is that we are making progre…

Timestamps & Summary 2:10 Postpartum, uterine health, inflammation, immunity, impact on reproduction; what is it about this area that really intrigued you? Dr. Stephen LeBlanc Well, I think it is a really interesting scientific challenge. There are a lot of complexity and interest here. But more to the point, it looks to be something that has got s…

Timestamps & Summary 1:47 You recently participated in JEFO’s annual JEFO beef Academy and presented key management and nutritional approaches to improving feed efficiency in feedlot cattle. Could you summarize what you presented during that symposium? Dr. Katie Wood A lot of my research focuses on feed efficiency and understanding feed efficiency.…

Timestamps & Summary 1:47 What brought you to that area of research? Dr. Lance Baumgard When I was at the University of Arizona, we started working on heat stress. And through a series of experiments over a period of about 10 years, we middle our way down to the gut. And what we are very confident in is that most of the negative consequences of hea…

Timestamps & Summary 1:25 So, Dr. Azahal, I was hoping you would expand a bit for our audience about meeting the nutrient needs of early lactation cows, making sure we have high health, high component yield and successful rebreeding. Dr. Ousama AlZahal This is really an important topic that we always find ourselves going back to and discussing it w…

Timestamps & Summary 1:50 Could you summarize your findings in evaluating impact of ruminant agriculture versus what is what we often see reported in the media today? Dr. Frank Mitloehner There is a lot of confusion out there. That is largely caused by people not understanding how the contributions of livestock to greenhouse gases are really quite …

Timestamps & Summary 1:49 I believe the audience would really enjoy hearing about your journey as a young Oxford county dairy producer all the way to a university professor. Dr. Michael Steele I grew up in Oxford County, and Ontario, Canada, and I have loved the dairy cow for my entire life. I went to the University of Guelph thinking I was going t…

Timestamps & sommaire 1:45 Est-ce que tu peux nous parler du parcours qui t’a menée à étudier la nutrition animale à l’Université de Guelph ? Vicki Brisson J’ai grandi sur une ferme laitière familiale dans l'Est ontarien. Mes 2 parents viennent de fermes laitières eux aussi. Je me suis toujours intéressée à la santé animale. Depuis la 8e année où l…

Timestamps & Summary 1:36 Tell the audience about your journey and the research you have been doing for your master’s degree. Vicki Brisson I grew up on a dairy farm, and I really had an interest in Animal Health. So starting in grade 8, until the beginning of my master's, I spent lots of time shadowing large animal vets; they were probably tired o…

Timestamps & Summary 1:41 Could you give us an overview of the biological impact of stress on the dairy cow reproduction? Dr. Matt Lucy I think stress is a big factor in our ability to get cows pregnant. Traditionally, we always thought about the effects of stress on ovarian function. Whether or not the cow had started cycling and come into heat. B…

Timestamps & Summary 1:24 Dr. King, we would be interested to know what your research interests and projects are. Dr. King I have been working with different provinces, getting producer feedback on how I can assess what stresses them out. What is influencing their mental health and their physical health? How is this related to farm management? And …

Timestamps & Summary 2:04 What are some of the common stressors that cows may experience daily on a dairy farm? Dr. Devries The one that gets the most attention is probably heat stress. But there are other stressors that cows may face regardless of environmental conditions throughout the year. The biggest one that we know is social stress. And that…

Timestamps & Summary 1:42 John, in your experience, what are the top three characteristics of the most profitable dairy farms? Dr. John Ellsworth I would say number one, high milk production. Number two, I say a successful strategy is limiting the ratio of heifers to cows to 80% or 85%. And number three, solid cost control. When we talked about the…

Timestamps & Summary 1:30 Tell us more on your journey in creating success strategies. How did you get there, and what you found along the way? Dr. John Ellsworth I’m happy to share. Success Strategies is actually based upon a business plan that I wrote with a team of fellow students at Duke University when I was working on my MBA, and in which I f…

Timestamps & Summary 01:44 Has the interest in dry matter intake changed over the years, especially in the light of discussions about feed efficiency? Dr. Mike Hutjens The goal on dairy farms is to have healthy cows. Dry matter plays an important role in animal health and immunity. We have to get cows pregnant in a timely manner, because that deter…

Timestamps & Summary 2:00 Dr. Lapierre, could you expand perhaps for the audience on how you arrived at looking at nitrogen and amino acid requirements of dairy cows? Dr. Hélène Lapierre Well, it has been a long road. And I did my bachelor’s degree at Laval University. Then I went for a master but I was still not decided. I went to work in finance …

Sections et résumés 00:02:10 À quel moment votre intérêt pour ce sujet a-t-il commencé ? Dre Hélène Lapierre C’est quand même une longue histoire qui a commencé quand j'ai fait mon baccalauréat à l'Université Laval en sciences animales. Ensuite, j'ai trouvé un emploi qui touchait indirectement la recherche, puis ça m'a vraiment donné la piqûre et j…

Timestamps & Summary 01:33:00 – Why did you start researching B vitamins, a nutrient that was supposedly useless for the cow? And how did your original hypothesis change over the years? Dr. Girard started to think about B vitamins when she had to prepare a seminar and a review of literature during her PhD. Pregnant at the time and having to take fo…

Sections et résumé 01:43:00 – Pourquoi avoir concentré vos recherches sur les besoins des vaches laitières en vitamines B et comment vos hypothèses ont évolué? Dr Girard a commencé à s'intéresser aux vitamines lorsqu’elle a dû choisir un sujet pour son doctorat. Nouvellement enceinte et devant prendre des suppléments d'acide folique, elle a décidé …

Timestamps & Summary 01:10:00 – Your shared with me a paper you wrote in 2016 that talked about the nutrition 2.0. Can you explain a little bit more of what you mean by it? We're referring to a new generation of understanding nutrients and how we should feed them. With the discovery in the Human Genome project that there are hundreds of sensors in …

Timestamps & Summary 01:54:00 – Could you explain the path you took to become who you are today? Dr. Hutjens grew up on a 70-cow grade Holstein farm in the 1950s. He went to a Community College for a year, and then down to Madison to get his degree, where he got a chance to work in a mastitis lab and in the dairy science department. When he met Dr.…

Timestamps & Summary 01:20:00 – In a previous episode, you expanded on your approach on farm synchronization to improve efficiency. Could you expand specifically on how the feed centre and mixing feed impact the overall farm synchronization? There is currently a great lost of efficiency when it comes to feed centres. To prevent that, David Greene d…

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