A network of ruminant nutritionists - enabling exchange of ideas and experience among professionals, to understand and improve health and productivity of ruminant livestock.
A network of ruminant nutritionists - enabling exchange of ideas and experience among professionals, to understand and improve health and productivity of ruminant livestock.
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Interpretation of blood and liver macro mineral results. How useful for nutritionists? Richard Laven SoVS, Massey University
Interpretation of blood and liver results.
Ketosis is the Response, not the route cause
Ketosis is a metabolic challenge that can occur for a number of reasons. Ian Sawyer lead a detailed discussion on these metabolic changes that occur over the transition period, how ketosis can be an outcome and how to mitigate ketosis.
MPI Updates Regarding Winter Cropping, Penny Timmer-Arends and Amanda Turner
MPI winter cropping update
Sustainability of Winter Cropping and Cropping Techniques, Wayne Nichol
Emerging sustainable options for winter cropping
Trace Element Deficiency Diagnosis, Richard Laven SoVS, Massey University
Interpretation of blood and liver results.
Can ruminant methane be reduced by genetic selection, vaccines or feeding seaweed? Garry Waghorn
Gary discussed three methodologies currently being worked on as mitigation strategies for methane reduction: Genetics Certain sheep have been identified as having low methane emisions. These are also sheep whtat are low yielding so there is a trade-off with performance.
Overseer Modelling Case Study – Alastair Taylor
This active run through of Overseer included demo software that was not public at the time of the session. Alastair takes a step by step approach to showcase how the FM programme functions, what information to put into each section
Feed Testing, A Lab Tour – Fiona Calvert, Hill Laboratories
The method is very important and cannot be over-looked.
Precision Dairy Monitoring Opportunities and Challenges – Dr. Jeffery Bewley
Analytics is the next scientific breakthrough.
What’s new with Fibre Analysis and the Benefits – Jakob Kleinmans, PhD Agric. Science
Fibre is important in the ruminant diet, however with increasing fibre in the diet comes a decrease in energy which impacts on production. In high performance animals it is hard to satisfy both the high energy requirements to support milk
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OverseerFM – What is new, and the path ahead Alastair Taylor, Overseer Ltd.
OverseerFM is an online software that connects farmers to science to support sustainable farm businesses that protect the environment. OverseerFM is built on 30 years of science. The OverseerFM model has been updated to make nutrient budgeting more user friendly,
Nitrogen and Feeds – David Pacheco, AgResearch
Farmers use Nitrogen (N) to increase forage yields and increase profitability, however, there has been increasing requirements to minimise environmental impact and for this reason N use on farms is under scrutiny. N that is not used in an animal
Enteric Methane and Feeds – Arjan Jonker, AgResearch
Methane (CH4) is mainly formed in the rumen (87-92%) by methanogens which utilise microbially hydrogen produced in the rumen during fermentation of ingested feed. CH4 from animals is measured via gas exchange using flux methods like respiration chambers and marker methods
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